We are at the one month mark till project completion. It's definitely crunch time. The Utac team has a mighty impressive experiment we designed in house, to test the confidence of our design for United Taconite. Attached to this post is the wet lab operations of our experiment. We have designed a filter bag stand to hold the filter sector with the designed bag over it, in a stationary position. We have five different nozzles that we are trying to test. They all have different spray patterns (angle) and flowrates measured in gallons per minute. We purchased a 1hp pump from L&M Supply for increased pressure from the current 50psi the janitors slop sink has to offer from MRCTC. We are going to run our test at 50, 75, and 100psi; check visually how clean it is., and compare it to the 1-10 scale we developed to rate the color differential. After all the wet lab analysis is complete, we then send it over to the dry portion of the lab where we hook up a 3" dia. filter bag section in a channel of PVC pipe with a shop vac supplying vacuum. We inserted 3/8" pipe fittings to hook up a U-tube manometer to measure the differential pressure developed to cement how effective our pressure wash test performed.
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