Week 11: Nov 12, 2023

Happy Sunday,

I hope all of you are having a relaxing weekend. As stated in the email message, I will hold extra office hours today (Sunday 11/12) from 2-3 PM. 

On Friday, I mentioned the catastrophic accident where PBB was added to cattle feed instead of magnesium oxide. More information can be found in this short case study.

We will continue studying adsorption processes this week. I have opened the adsorption homework, which is your last homework assignment.  Once we complete adsorption, we will look at residual processing. 

Due this week: Tutorial 2: Field Trip discussion. You can submit this in your teams.  It is fine to answer the questions, rather than writing a detailed report.  It will be easier on the graders and hopefully, all of you. 

I will do this week's participation question in class.

This week's tutorial will serve as a work session for Tutorial 2 and MiniDesign2.  You can also use this time to work in the lab on Tutorial 3, just remember to sign up on the Google sheet. We will meet in the classroom.

EES will be touring the Red Cedar Spirits distillery on Wednesday, November 15th at 5pm. All are invited, irrespective of your major. If you need a ride, please email RSO.EES@msu.edu by Monday, November 13th!

 

All the best,

Dr. Masten

 

Photos from the field trips

 



Sludge pump to transport biosolids from screw press to hopper





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