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1. P13621: Conductive Heat Transfer Lab Equipment <https://edge.rit.edu/edge/P13621/public/Home> MSD II: Final Project Review 10 May, 2013 RIT KGCOE

2. Contents • Team members / roles, Sponsor • Project Description / High Level Customer Needs / Engineering Specs • Concept Summary • System Architecture • Design Summary • System Testing Results • Objective Project Evaluation: Success and Failure • Opportunities/Suggestions for Future Work

3. Project Participants Project Sponsor : RIT KGCOE, Chemical Engineering Dept. Dr. Karuna S. Koppula Mr. Paul Gregorius MSD 1 Team Guide : Neal Eckhaus, Steve Possanza Team P13621: Shannon McCormick - (ChemE) PM Tatiana Stein - (ChemE) Team Facilitator Shayne Barry - (ME) Procurement Jordan Hill - (EE) Piotr Radziszowski - (ME) Meka Iheme - (ChemE) Rushil Rane - (ISE) Lead Engineer

4. Project Overview Mission Statement: To provide students with the ability to observe conductive heat transfer and the ability to measure the thermal conductivity of a material. Background: • A material’s ability to transfer heat is a measurable quantity • RIT ChemE department would like to procure lab equipment that would demonstrate heat transfer such that students may be able to calculate thermal conductivity • Experimental results would be comparable to published data

5. Customer Needs

6. Customer Needs

7. Functional Decomposition

8. System Architecture

9. Conceptual Designs #1 #2 #3 Three concepts have been narrowed down.

10. Assembly Drawing • Assembly/ disassembly instructions • Transfer of heat • Linear profile • Size of cold plate • Constant pressure application • Thermal stickers for visual • Losses

11. Bill of Materials

12. Experimental Setup

13. Testing Results • In summary, we successfully met the customer requirement that stipulated an accuracy of thermal conductivity >85% for our aluminum, brass, Stainless Steel and Cold-rolled Steel samples.

14. Testing Results

15. Accuracy Table

16. Testing Results

17. Lab Manual

18. LabView

19. LabView

20. Objective Project Evaluation • Overall Success. • Thermal conductivity accuracy >85% for 3 of 4 samples tested. (including 99% accuracy for Aluminum) • All risks in Risk Assessment were mitigated over the course of MSD I & II.

21. Suggestions For Future Work • Shorter Cartridge heater- modified to accept a shorter cartridge heater (less than the standard drill length ~ 4”) then creating the copper block may have been slightly easier. • Since the last ¼” to ½” of the cartridge heater has no heating elements and is more insulation for the connecting wires than anything else, it is a good idea to keep them outside of the copper heating block. • Controlling the temperature at the boundary between the heating block and the specimen could reduce time to steady state and possibly create more accurate results. • Decreasing sample size • Using thermal grease • Using High K material samples for samples

22. Questions?