1. P13621: Conductive Heat Transfer Lab Equipment 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

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

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?