Prove that IX-Liquid can:
- protect itself from bad feed,
- remove bulk oil/solids before polishing media,
- make correct routing decisions,
- preserve evidence during faults,
- produce repeatable pilot data without overstating treatment claims.
Deliverables:
- architecture
- state machine
- alarm matrix
- BOM
- assembly plan
- sample plan
Exit criteria:
- no unresolved contradiction between routing, power, and maintenance access
Tasks:
- energize panel
- verify HMI
- verify all inputs and outputs
- test startup permissives
- test staged shutdown logic
- force stale-data and bad-sensor cases
Exit criteria:
- every block reason visible on HMI
- every emergency level lands in the intended state
Tasks:
- run clean water through all valid routes
- measure stable nominal flow at 8 GPM target
- verify pressure losses by stage
- confirm no leaks and no trapped drain issues
Exit criteria:
- 60 minutes stable run at nominal pilot flow
- no uncontrolled overflow
- no ambiguous route behavior
Suggested feed:
- clean water + representative oil loading + solids surrogate
- do not use unknown hazardous chemistry for first proof
Tasks:
- test separation performance
- test cartridge and polishing path response
- test waste tote logic
- test recirculation on bad quality
- capture influent and effluent samples
Exit criteria:
- no visible free oil at verified discharge point during controlled trials
- discharge blocks correctly on induced high-turbidity / bad-sensor / waste-full conditions
- service triggers occur before catastrophic fouling
Tasks:
- deploy at a bounded site
- operate with inspection plan
- maintain daily service log
- collect independent samples
- compare operating cost and service burden to objectives
Exit criteria:
- no major safety event
- log completeness >95%
- all blocked discharges traceable to sensor or process state
- operator can reconstruct every major stop
- influent flow
- effluent flow
- turbidity trend
- conductivity trend
- pH
- ORP
- separator level
- waste tote level
- pre/post filter differential pressure
- event log timestamps
- route decision timestamps
The first proof should be modest and falsifiable.
Recommended initial criteria:
- maintain 8 GPM nominal pilot flow on clean-water shakedown
- correctly refuse startup when any critical permissive is false
- correctly route to hold or recirculation when final verification is out of bounds
- preserve event history through a simulated brownout
- demonstrate at least one full service cycle without destructive teardown