P09451 Status Report / December 19, 2008

Progress

  • Concept Generation
  • Refine concepts
  • Concept sketches

Concerns

  • Module Availability
  • Size of thermocouples available
  • Meeting all needs
  • Specific measurement needs still unclear

Complete Action Items

  • Needs Assessment
  • Preliminary Specifications
  • Executive Summary of Benchmarking
  • Preliminary Concept Generation
  • List of temp measurement alternatives
  • List of TE module alternatives w/ specs

Outstanding Action Items

  • Continue refining developed concepts – Tuesday – Team
  • Create Document Control System for EDGE – Tuesday - Bryan
  • Develop Model of groove to determine significance – Thursday – Andy
  • Compose list of TE module alternatives incl. specs – Tuesday – John
  • Collect current system test data – Tuesday – Gabriela

P09451 Status Report / December 19, 2008

Multidisciplinary Senior Design

Individual Weekly Progress Report

12/15/08-12/19/08

Bryan McCormick

Tasks / Description of Activities / Date Completed / Other team members involved with task
Deliverables / Review list of all deliverables due for quarter to get a better feel for the schedule / 12/16/08
Concept Generation / Preliminary concept generation including sketches of assembly and piping layout alternatives / 12/16/08 / All
System Level Review / Begin determining what is required for system level review / Ongoing

Multidisciplinary Senior Design

Individual Weekly Progress Report

Week 3 12/19/08

Jonathan Holdsworth

Tasks / Description of Activities / Date Completed / Other team members involved with task
Specifications/Needs / Reviewed/changed needs and specifications (values) / 12/18/08 / John, Bryan, Ken, Gabriella, Andy
Concept Generation / Came up with additional concepts and created sketches for concepts. / 12/18/08
Temperature Measurement Devices / Researched various possible measurement devices and possibilities / 12/16/08

Multidisciplinary Senior Design

Individual Weekly Progress Report

12/15-12/19

John Kreuder

Tasks / Description of Activities / Date Completed / Other team members involved with task
Generate concepts / Narrow the compiled list of specifications and generate possible solutions to meet the specs. Drawings of the air to water changeover configuration have been generated as well as drawings of the new power unit. / All week / All
Research commercially available equipment / Generate a list of available thermoelectric devices using suppliers provided by Kevin Smith. / Monday 12/15 / none

Multidisciplinary Senior Design

Individual Weekly Progress Report

Friday, December 19, 2008

Andy Freedman

Tasks / Description of Activities / Date Completed / Other team members involved with task
Groove Heat Flux Modeling / Started to look into the effects that the groove for the thermocouple has on heat distribution. Modeled a “test” plate in Solidworks and attempted to run simulation in ANSYS. Problems with ANSYS model have postponed results. Currently a work in progress. / Work in Progress / Individual
Fin Efficiency / Started to look at fin efficiency using equations from Heat Transfer book. Need actual data to confirm Dr. Stevens’ statement that they are approximately 100%. / Work in Progress / Individual
Concept Sketches / Explored concepts and made sketches to better display ideas. / 12/18 / Individual
Review of P08451 / Found schematic of how thermal resistances were modeled for current water cooled system / 12/19 / Individual

Multidisciplinary Senior Design

Individual Weekly Progress Report

12/15 – 12/19

Ken McLoud

Tasks / Description of Activities / Date Completed / Other team members involved with task
Block diagram / Made system level block diagram that was not dependant on any specific concept / 12/19
Meetings / Attended the tuesday meeting this week and contributed to the group work / 12/19

Multidisciplinary Senior Design

Individual Weekly Progress Report

Week 3

Gabriela Santa Cruz

Tasks / Description of Activities / Date Completed / Other team members involved with task
Concept Generation / Discussion and analysis of ideas for concept generation. / 12/19/09 / all
Data Reliability Testing Research / Research on available methods for testing data reliability / 12/18/09 / no