Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2015-2016 Thermal Energy”
The Thermal Energy team is currently working countless hours to fabricate 3 body-powered flashlights. The design includes cutting PVC pipe, various metals & polymers, using special thermal paste and epoxy, as well as wiring an entire voltage step-up regulator. A band saw was used to cut the foot-long PVC pipe in half for the base of the flashlight. Aluminum, steel, …
The Android app development has been going on well for us. As shown in the picture, we have assembled the thermocouple kit along with a wireless transmitter. The probes on thermocouple measure temperature, and the wireless transmitter sends that data to smart phone wirelessly for further calculation of k and h. For app development, one person has been working closely …
The Thermal Energy group is dedicated to design an efficient yet compact solar thermal energy storage (STES) system, and eventually create a prototype. Our research objective is to minimize the trade-off between renewable energy variations in order to expand the application of thermal energy storage beyond industrial utilization. Ultimately, our storage design will allow for all components to be scaled …
