Our question is, would microgravity have an effect on coagulation.We will use dirty water and aluminum sulfate to test the coagulation and (To be determined) as our coagulate. The fixation. The experiment will address the question by being able to see if coagulation happens in microgravity by, looking at the outcome of the coagulation of the particulate matter ("Water Treatment Process - Coagulation."). My team and I picked to use dirty water, aluminum sulfate, and a fixate (COMING SOON). We will make the dirty water ourselves (DETAILS SOON). We ordered our aluminum sulfate from http://www.sciencecompany.com/ ("The Science Company ® | Chemicals | Lab Supplies | Microscopes | PH Meters | Refractometers."). We ordered our fixate from (COMING …show more content…
The experiment is done when the aluminum sulfate is mixed with the dirty water ("An Experimental Study of the Influence of Weak Convection on Perikinetic Coagulation."). The aluminum sulfate will then hook with the particulate matter and usually drags it down to the bottom of the glass/container ("Water Treatment Process - Coagulation."). Our 1G experiment shows that when aluminum sulfate is mixed with dirty water the particulate matter coagulates (DETAILS SOON). All of our 3 substances, dirty water, aluminum sulfate and fixate (COMING SOON) are not alive and will not need anything to help them. Our substances will not be needing any special requirements and can stay in the FME until it is boarded the ISS. The fixate is to...it does this by... (COMING SOON). My teams FME will include all of our 3 substances. The astronaut would unclamp clamp A, during A=0, shaking the FME mixing the dirty water and the aluminum sulfate. That's when the particulate matter will coagulate or not. The astronaut will then unclamp clamp B on A=2 mixing the fixate with the dirty water and aluminum sulfate (DETAILS SOON) ("Flocculation: Making Clean …show more content…
We will conduct the same experiment on earth and then in microgravity. We will then take the two experiment outcomes and compare them using a pH meter ("Calibrating Conventional pH Meters."). There will be a difference if the particulate matter coagulated or not. We will compare the ground truth experiments pH level to the microgravity experiments pH level. That will tell if the water in the experiment done in microgravity has been cleaned or not. If it has been cleaned than the particulate matter has coagulated. If the water is still dirty then that means the particulate matter did not coagulate (Wrabel, Carol.). We can tell the pH from dirty water to clean water because dirty water has a different pH, we are unsure what Ph our dirty water will have, but we will know because of the ground truth experiment. Different particles in the dirt have different pH levels and when you mix them with water it changed the pH of the water. This is a list of all of the pH levels in different particles in the dirt (Reich, Lee.). If the particulate matter formed into one giant ball and floated in the middle of the FME we will know that it still coagulated in space from the pH level but we will also be able to see if it is a ball that floated to the middle of the FME or not, helping the theory that most solids will form into a ball and float into the middle of liquids ("Bizarre