"Man learns in two ways: by doing, and by being done."  -   Unknown

Objective

The primary purpose of this assignment is to familiarize yourself with the Excel spreadsheet program and develop a tool to help you estimate the yearly cost of operating your project treatment system.

Part 1: Compute the yearly costs of a full-size water treatment system based on your prototype treatment work in the lab.  This application will aid you in designing and testing your system for the first project. To familiarize yourself with the computational procedure, by hand, estimate the costs associated with a prototype treatment system with the following characteristics:

• flowrate into the system of 900 ml/min

• system run time of 60 minutes

• filter consists of 4 inches of anthracite and 4 inches of filter sand

• coagulant dosage of 35 mg/l

• prototype sedimentation tank has 4 chambers active

Part 2: Develop a spreadsheet to estimate yearly costs of a full-size water treatment system. Check your spread sheet with the results from Part One and with the following prototype treatment system:

• flowrate into the system of 900 ml/min

• system run time of 55 minutes

• filter consists of 6 inches of anthracite and 2 inches of filter sand

• coagulant dosage of 60 mg/l

• prototype sedimentation tank has 2 chambers active

Part 3: Use your cost spreadsheet developed in Part 2 to estimate yearly costs of each of the prototype water treatment systems (WTS) run in lab last week (click here for WTS data). Tabulate your WTS cost data by flowrate and the number of sedimentation tanks used in the prototype runs and then construct a graph from the data (the figure below shows the typical organization and format of the graph).

This website was originally developed by Charles Camp for CIVL 1112.
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