Experiment Designs & Results: Engineering
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Experimental Results
Please post experimental findings in the link above – only after posting that experiment's procedure below and recording the experiment being conducted. Thank you!
RESEARCH DESIGN
How to Write An Experimental Procedure:
Please post an example of any hypothesis, questions or intriguing concepts that you may have, so that we can work as a group to analyze, develop or integrate your idea. Our final hypothesis's will be more specific and detail methods of building, maintenance and data analysis but just do rough brain storms while looking over the literature.
Hypothesis:
A microbiome of aquatic bacteria (e.g. Nitrofiles/autotrophs...) cultured in a circulating aquaponic system develop a micro ecosystem capable of processing chloramine (from tap water) into to nitrate to be used as plant nutrients. The micro ecosystem will use the nitrification to break down chloramine and ammonia (from fish urine) into nitrate(plus inert by products) to maintain a safe ammonia/chloramine concentration for fish and plants while simultaneously providing the majority of plants nutrition.
Methods:
An aquaponic system will be designed to receive tap water (chloramine) or filtered water. A trial will be the term of one crop cycle. Two trials will be conducted: filtered water with biome and tap (chloramine containing) water with biome. The system will be maintained as needed and have constant digital monitoring of chloramine, ammonia and nitrate levels. All other relevant data such as flow rate, pH, salinity will also be monitored electronically. The fish and crop health and size will be assessed daily. Time logs will be kept for all labor done to maintain the system and will be analyzed to correlate reductions in labor with different trial modalities.
Independent Variable:
The use of chloramine containing water or filtered water.
Dependent Variable:
The levels of chloramine, nitrate and ammonia measured by sensors, time spent on maintenance and the health / growth rate of fish and plants.
Example:
Use of aquaponic automation and micro ecosystem to reduce maintenance, cost, water usage and increase growth rate of crops.
–Ryan G.