This week we collected data for our presentation to the industry representatives on March 11th. We have started work on our current goal of making a poster for the winter design review in the mechanical/aerospace department and civil/environmental department. Two of our members from environmental engineering have also began making the presentation relevant for them.

All of our purchase orders went through just as planned; we are still expecting the pump to arrive approximately within the next 2 week. The pump is an essential piece to the data center. Without the pump, our system would overheat and thus destroy our fuel cell because of the excess heat will dry the water in the cell.

Allen Schellerup and Rob Miller are working on the coolant loop that we will build from scratch and will be a new essential component to our data center. With the coolant loop projected to be completed within two weeks, this places our team right on schedule.

Aaron Cheng has been working with the MatLab model that will project the Renewable Energy percentage vs. PV Size in the data center system. He is doing that by optimizing the size of the solar panels and the size of the hydrogen tanks in order to get maximum efficiently and ultimately allow the data center to be able to be ran by 100% renewable energy.

John Stansberry has finished the test plan overlooking the data we gathered. It describes each individual component on how we are integrating it in to data center. He inspected the data center and was able to formulate a list of the missing connections the fuel cell has and labeled them for future repairs. For example, run the ducting, the connection of a universal power supply, implementing a 240 volt ac 3 phase, etc. Until the coolant loop can be completed, no further progress can be made.