Fundamental Studies and Chemical and Engineering Innovationsin Flocculative Water Cleaning

小行星9520573 该奖项是一个为期三年的合作项目，将在新泽西理工学院的工业/大学合作研究中心的危险废物管理和女王大学环境科学与技术中心（QUESTOR）在北方，爱尔兰，英国贝尔法斯特联合研究。 该研究旨在提高使用絮凝净化的水处理设施的有效性和效率。 QUESTOR的研究人员得到了当地工业联盟的资助，设计，建造和运营一个试点水处理厂，以设计使用絮凝添加剂的新方法，以扩大絮凝清洁的范围和效率。 I/UCRC的研究将集中在絮凝器流体动力学的一些基本方面。 通过确定絮凝器中局部速度梯度的空间分布，可以确定絮凝器中运动的一般絮凝体颗粒的速度梯度时间积分。 这可以用来准确地量化这个关键参数的值为一些絮凝配置，以确定絮凝物的聚集和破碎。 这项研究应阐明絮凝的基本流体动力学方面的水净化过程的改进。

9520573 Magee This award is a collaborative three-year project to be studied jointly at both the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Hazardous Waste Management and the Queen's University Environmental Science and Technology Center (QUESTOR) at Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. The study is designed to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of water processing facilities that use flocculation for purification. The QUESTOR researchers have been funded by a consortium of local industries to design, build and operate a pilot water treatment plant to devise new approaches to the use of flocculation additives to extend the range and efficiency of flocculative cleaning. The I/UCRC studies will focus on some fundamental aspects of the fluid dynamics of flocculators. By determining the spacial distribution of local velocity gradients in a number of flocculation vessal configurations, the velocity gradient time integral for a generic floc particle moving in the flocculator can be determined. This can be used to accurately quantify the value of this key parameter for a number of flocculation configurations to determine floc aggregation and breakage. The study should elucidate the fundamental fluid dynamic aspects of flocculation for process improvement in water purification.