Week 10: Finishing up nZVI detection

nZVI detecting IP measurement is working really well.
My mentor (Jim Nurmi) and I thought of a better set up for the field application. Rather than trying to put electrodes in ground to measure IP under the ground, we decided that making a flow-through cell will be more efficient. I would set up a pump at a location and pump groundwater through the IP set up, then back into the groundwater. If the measurement is taken over time at various distances from the source, it is possible to even calculate the horizontal velocity of FeCMC-BH particles.

I have obtained close-to-real groundwater + tetrachloroethene from the leap tank outside of Cooley building, and it is currently being used as a background solution instead of 200mg/L bicarbonate solution.

Only couple more days to go!