At this
stage, there isn’t yet too much material to choose from in the blogs. The water
treatment -group’s blog has two posts so far: the first one consists of the basic
idea of the project and introduction of the members, and the second one is
about the research articles task. The augmented reality -group’s blog has three
posts: one from the first PO-meeting, one about the articles task as well, and
one about this blog review assignment.
In general,
both of the blogs have a really nice layout, and they are very easy to use. The
water treatment -blog is made with Blogger like ours, and the augmented reality
-blog is made by WordPress. Both platforms seem to work well for this purpose.
Green
coagulants & flocculants for water treatment
The water
treatment -group’s project goal in their own words is to find and test
efficient bio-based flocculants and biodegradable polymers for their project
owner BK-Hydrometa Oy. Regarding the most interesting finding of the group at
this point, it’s relevant to scrutinize their post about the research articles
they’ve studied. The post includes summaries of two different articles, both
examining the subject from a little bit different point of view.
The first
article is told to be about the municipal waste water pretreatment in Egypt,
using coagulation and flocculation, in order to protect the environment and
public health. It is also cleared out that the article’s research purpose is to
find the optimum doses of the coagulants used – which in this case is stated to
be 60mg/l of alum. The second article on the other hand, is explained to be
concentrating on filtration methods of organic matter in water treatment, and
it is told to be concluded in the study that palladium-zinc oxide nano wires provide
more efficient photocatalytic reactions than plain zinc oxide nano wires.
Not knowing
too much about the subject, both of these findings still sound interesting, and
most likely somehow useful for the group’s project. Waste water treatment is an
important matter, and the group seems to be well delved into what they are
doing.
Augmented
reality for the process industry
The
augmented reality -group’s blog doesn’t state very clearly the deeper purpose
of their project. Under the blog’s heading, there is a subheading “Non-tactile Augmented Reality System for
the process industry”, so it can be understood that the main idea is to develop
some kind of an augmented reality system for their project owner, but the
reasons behind that and the possible uses are not explained. However, as it was
in the water treatment -case, it is also relevant in this case to take a look
at the group’s findings from the articles they've researched, and through that
look it becomes viable to understand the question why.
The post is
conducted of three articles, which are not exactly addressed at one by one but more like
compiled together, to one easy-to-read text about the subject. The post starts
by telling what is meant by AR and continues by highlighting the reasons behind
the increased popularity of the technique, and the advantages and requirements of
the use of it specifically in industrial environment. Lastly, AR is
demonstrated through three YouTube-videos about the possible applications:
HoloLens on Premset (Schneider Electric), Remote Maintenance with HoloLens
(Fraunhofer) and IKEA Place (IKEA).
There isn’t
really anything considered as “findings” in the post, but more like good basic
information about the base for the project purpose. AR is a cool subject, and
the project sounds exciting – must be interesting to work with this
matter.
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