Home Chemistry: Filtration system

Aim: To make a filtration plant using household materials.

Water Filtration Plant

What is the filtration?

Filtration is separating solids from liquids by adding a medium through which

only the liquid can pass.

Examples are:

1. Kettle
2. Air
3. Pool
4. Internet

Materials

1. Sand

2. Pebbels

3. Funnel

4. Filter paper

5. Cone

6. Container

Process - ( use verbs or doing words in each step )

Step 1

Cut the bottle with scissors so that you make a cone & filter,

Step 2

Put the top half upside down that creates a funnel inside the other half,

STEP 3

Fold the filtered paper into squares so it will make a funnel

when opened,

STEP 4

Get 1 cup of Sand & pour it into the funnel that you made with

the filtered paper,

STEP 5

Pour some Sand & Pebbles into the filter so they do not fall out

of the filter,

STEP 6

Pour the dirty water into the funnel slowly & if the water is dripping

out of the filter then you have done a good job,

Findings

I think that we did not fail and it went partly well except for

when the dirty water started to get inside the bottom half but

except that we were fine. : )  

Minutes  1. There was a ton of water pouring/dripping through

the filter for about 1.5min, it wasn’t really pouring fast but

dripping fast as well as being clean,  

                      

2. It kept dripping about 3drops per 20 seconds for 2minutes straight,

the water still kept clean sortive?   

                

3. The water drops were getting the tiniest of dirt inside the water but

they still came through the filter a little bit clean, and just a tiny

bit slower,        

           

4. it wasn’t really dripping or started to slow down within 4minutes,

but we tried to carry it on so it would keep going so it did but

not so much it didn’t work it just carried on a little bit because we poured

a little bit because we weren't allowed,

5. It was about to stop halfway during 5mins but we tried

to make it keep going by shaking the bottle and surprisingly

it worked but then it stopped 20seconds later...

Drops per minute: 9 Drops per minute

Watercolor: Clear

Conclusion: What we have learned today was that we had to

make the water clean and Fresh so that we learned something

and to blog about our findings, Also we had to think hard and see

what would really happen to the water,

Would it be Clean? Or would it be Dirty?