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A Bode diagram is a graphical representation of the frequency response of a linear time-invariant system. It consists of two plots:Magnitude plot: Shows the amplitude (or gain) of the system as a function of frequency (on a logarithmic scale).Phase plot: Shows the phase shift of the system as a function of frequency (on a logarithmic scale).While traditionally associated with control systems and signal processing, the concept of a Bode diagram can be adapted to analyze the response of a wastewater treatment system to variations in influent conditions, particularly in the context of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD).The Bode diagram provides insights into how the wastewater treatment plant responds to variations in influent BOD, helping to optimize design and operations.Understanding System Dynamics:The magnitude plot shows how effectively the plant attenuates BOD fluctuations at different frequencies.The phase plot shows how delayed the system response is to changes in influent BOD.Retention Time Optimization:The time constant τtauτ (related to HRT) determines the plant's ability to dampen fluctuations.By analyzing the Bode diagram, designers can adjust HRT to ensure the system attenuates BOD fluctuations adequately.Identifying Critical Frequencies:The cutoff frequency (where the system's gain drops by -3 dB) indicates the maximum frequency the system can handle before significant attenuation is lost.This helps determine whether the plant can accommodate rapid influent fluctuations or if additional buffering (e.g., equalization basins) is needed.Improving Permitting Compliance:Regulators often require stable effluent quality to meet discharge permits.The Bode diagram helps ensure the system design minimizes effluent BOD fluctuations, reducing the risk of permit violations.Control System Design:If automatic control systems (e.g., aeration control) are implemented, the Bode diagram is directly applicable for tuning controllers to respond effectively to influent changes.

Exciting things are afoot! Today we start the first class of the new Bioengineering 101 class (with labs!) that will include fungal and bacterial culturing, CRIsPR 9 gene selection and all manner of interesting things. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Environmental Organic Chemistry continued - chapter 12. I am interested in this for PFAS sequestration application for a project at work that I'm experimenting with so I wanted to brush up on some sorbing details. [joke alert. I made a chemistry pun. go team.] --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Schwarzenbach et. al Environmental Organic Chemistry Very good review of processes, systems, compartments, media and some basic governing equations. I skipped the math bits (mostly) because they are annoying to read but did try and do a verbal walk through of the equations' salient uses. A good review of modeling was also included in the next chapter, but we'll skip that (math/graph heavy) and focus on partitioning and transport for the next episode. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Chapter 4 review, Schwarzenbach's Environmental Organic Chemistry. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Schwarzenbach et. al Chapter 3: Environmental Organic Chemistry. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Nice guys finish last. Except when they don't. Phaistos is a good person, a kind person and he just can't get over his no-good, immature, loser of a cosmic crush. It's the story of what happens when love doesn't work out the way it's supposed to and the sweet success of gay toxicity. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Introduction to Plant Physiology, 4th ed. Chapter 8. Calvin cycle, enzyme function, chloroplast function, Rubisco preferential binding. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

An Introduction to Genetic Engineering, Chapters 4-5. Plasmids, restriction enzymes, gene manipulation techniques, mode of action, type II restriction enzymes, DNA modifying enzymes, selecting viable hosts and vectors. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Introduction to Genetic Engineering, chapter 3. Electrophoresis, DNA/RNA isolation, gene sequencing, cellular preparation, biochemical considerations. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Buddha Translation: Thomas Byrom, 1976 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Plant Physiology, chapter 7. Photosynthetic biochemical processes review: protein structures, organs, efficiency. Understanding of evolutionary basis for oxygenic and anoxygenic photophosporylization. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Introduction to Plant Physiology, 4th Ed. William G. Hopkins and Nathan P.A. Huner A basic description of the role of light in developing biochemical processes and triggering plant morphology and nutrient uptake. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

An Introduction to Genetic Engineering, 3rd ed. Desmond S. T. Nicholl Cellular structure, Central Dogma, functions of DNA/RNA, living system organization, organization of genes and genomes, processes involved in gene expression and regulation. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Bioindication, phytoremediation, biophilicity, translocation v. bioaccumulation. Factors for selection in remediation projects. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Buddhism, evolutionary biology, quantum field theory. A little string theory, just because I can. We're trying something a little new. We'll see how it goes. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Giant Reed. Good for salt, good for metals. Good for industrial uses. Go Giant Reed. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

All done. Happy ending. Author's perspectives and review of the work. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Meet Chiyoko. Chiyoko has problems. Lots of problems. And a strong hunger for power. I'm sure it will go well for everyone. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Hunters. Self-actualization. Healing. Stuff happens. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Meet Kas. Kas has problems. Lots of problems. Meet Hoshi. Hoshi also has lots of problems. Behold a series of poor choices culminating in murder and mayhem. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

This week, we are looking at the mechanisms for bacterial metabolisms, the rise of an oxygen atmosphere, and the importance of photosynthesis in developing an understanding of life. I get all excited about a ‘second generation' of alien life on earth and present a good reason why there was a couple billion years difference between cyanobacteria arising on earth and the actual development of a high oxygen atmosphere. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Human colonization. The "Great Filter." The application of human standards of civilization, intelligence, and evolutionary theory to a whole universe. Survivability of the most insane. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Life forms. Life biochemistry. Life commonalities. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Fluid statics. Determine pressure at various locations in a fluid at rest. Explain concepts of manometers and apply appropriate equations. Calculate hydrostatic pressure force on a plane or curved surface. Calculate buoyant force and determine stability of floating/submerged objects. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Rise of extraterrestrial life. Definition of life. Question what alien life is and how it relates to terrestrial assumptions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Chapter 1. Discussion of historical terms, development of planetary zeitgeist, understanding and Earth and Space sciences related to our own survival. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Fluid characteristics, definitions of dimensions, introduction to dimensional analysis. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Nucleic acids, recombinant DNA, virus mechanisms --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, enzymes. Test review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Endocrine, circulatory, cardiac rhythms, WBC/RBC types, cell differentiation. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Bromination, hydrocarbon (flammability, solubility), amines/amine salt reactions, oxidation reactions (including acid-alcohols+solubility). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Skeletal, muscular, neural, special senses. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Season finale! Blood. Guts. One of the few times recycling is NOT a good idea. Prions. Chaos is back. Konrad is back, with a vengeance. Welcome to the origin story of the SCREAM (more of that in Book 3 of Sensitives Series). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Eli makes new friends. Saves Luke...sort of. Kunihiro comes through. We meet Jia. Don't worry, she's cute and not traumatized yet. It's going to go great. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Meet Eli. He's sassy. Anti-clone. Desperate to get off BFE nowhere planet. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

TK gets memory jacked. Evil is afoot. Freedom calls. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Field prep --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Meet TK-0454675. Half computer, half-almost human. All confused. TK finds a personality and gets killed for it, a couple times. TK makes friends with a ghost and has an adventure involving cannibalism, Corporate greed, and a whole mess of weirdness. Enjoy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Singh and Konrad get blown up. Shay is not what she seems. Series finale, end of all things. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Module 1 - terms, definitions, basic concepts, body directionality --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Singh goes dark. Konrad gets a job, well, another one and is downright pissy about it. Both of them get gaslit. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Singh and Daniels make peace. Sol goes boom. Konrad and Singh go hunting. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Konrad and Singh get famous. Bad things happen. Mac is back. Also, Beta Reader 3 mistakenly calls this episode 9. Ignore her. She's tired. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Konrad comes through. Magic happens. A beautiful friendship is born. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

MCAT preparation --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

MCAT preparation --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Meet Konrad. Konrad is annoying. Konrad is charming. Konrad is going to ruin Singh's life...well, more than it already is. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

MCAT preparation --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

MCAT review --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support

Singh goes back to Chaos. Speed in the Deeps gets a new parent. Singh meets her past, unpleasantly. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osuz504-tech/support