Team H2Flow has had the best semester in IPPD working with Duke Energy to implement a quality and cost analysis dashboard to their system process. We have learned a lot about the effects of water quality, chemical balances, and corporate… Read More
Week 12 – System Level Design Review
This week the team is going full speed towards the end of the semester, wrapping up work on our project design. We presented our system level design review to three groups on Tuesday: Flyby, Composite Guardian, and Chemboard. It is… Read More
Week 11 – PID is Here!
On Tuesday, our team presented during the Prototype Inspection Day (PID). We shared our progress and goals for the rest of the semester while receiving feedback from some of UF’s faculty. Our feedback was glowing and by the end of… Read More
Week 9 -Data Cleaning
After a fun day spent at the co-generation plant last week, we now have our hands on lots and lots of data. This data was pulled from their Pi points, which is connected to sensors that track key performance indicators.… Read More
Week 8 – Dashboard Designing
We are diving nose first into the iterative design process for the development of our efficiency dashboard with one main thing in mind: the customer. This week the team went into the co-generation plant, ate a nice breakfast as a… Read More
Week 7 – Preliminary Design Report
This week we were quite excited to present our Preliminary Design Report to our liaisons at Duke Energy with a couple of additional guests as well. We received great engagement and discussion that will help propel us into the prototype… Read More
Week 6 – Three Site Visits
This week we visited three sites to get a better understanding of the entire water flow process: Duke Energy Co-generation Plant Rabon Chilled Water Plant UF Wastewater Treatment Plant On Monday, the team went to the Co-generation plant to sit… Read More
Week 5 – First Month
Gainesville as a whole was thankfully not impacted too badly by Hurricane Ian. The Duke plant specifically saw minimal repercussions from the storm’s impact. Our coach went to Fort Meyers this week to help with hurricane relief down there. Our… Read More
Week 4 – Hurricane Ian
Last week, our team attended a Lean Six Sigma White Belt Training seminar. We learned about streamlining processes, asking “why” to get to the root cause of a problem, and that quality is an important factor among others. We did… Read More
Week 3 – Site Tour & Data
Our team got to visit the plant and meet a couple of our liaisons in person, which helped us gain a better understanding of the overall project scope. This tour catalyzed a lot of research topics for us to dive… Read More
Week 2 – Understand Scope
This week we met with our liaisons and coach to introduce the team to each other as well as gain clarity on the scope of the project. We had a lot of our questions answered, set up a weekly meeting… Read More
Week 1 – Meet the team
Hello all! We are Julian, Kendall, Grace, and Nicole. Our team consists of two mechanical engineers, one industrial engineer, and one chemical engineer. This week we had lots of ‘firsts’: First team meeting Understanding our scope of work Beginning background… Read More