We have come so far and we can’t believe that the semester is already over! We worked diligently to prepare for our SLDR presentation with our sponsor GreenTechnologies, and it paid off. Our sponsor was very impressed with the progress… Read More
Week 14 – Thanksgiving Break
This week, the team took a step back from the work and spent some time with family for thanksgiving. We hope everyone takes step back to enjoy some time with their family this week – have a happy thanksgiving! References:[1]… Read More
Week 13 – Peer Review SLDR Takeaways
As SLDR approaches, we were given the opportunity to participate in peer reviews with some of the other teams to get feedback and potential improvements before we present to our sponsor. One of our biggest pieces of criticism was on… Read More
Week 12 – PID Takeaways
A fantastic success! All of our judges rated us really well for our prototype at this event and left us with some very good feedback. A common comment from the judges was to better explain what all our simulations are… Read More
Week 11 – Prototype Inspection Preparation
Our team is deep in the preparations for PID! We are super excited to share what we have been working on with the judges. Our ChemE team has been diligently working towards making a skeleton of the Aspen Simulation for… Read More
Week 10 – Aspen Plus for Drying
Aspen Plus is a powerful process modeling software that our ChemE team is utilizing to model the conventional dryer that is used by our sponsor. Posted below is a short video from Cornell about using Aspen Plus to model a… Read More
Week 9 – Exploring CFD Modeling!
An interesting topic introduced by our mechanical engineering team is the use of Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling for heat transfer analysis. A tool called Ansys Fluent can be used to model heat transfer using CFD so that we can… Read More
Week 8 – Prototyping Lab and PDR
This week, we spent some time as a team learning what kinds of resources the university offers to its engineering students. Thanks to a workshop offered by the HWLEE Prototype Operations Manager, Jeff Bielling, we got the chance to see… Read More
Week 7 – Takeaways and Learning
After a successful site visit last week, we had A LOT to discuss. We made some very good discoveries about the feed-stock that will assist us when researching and designing around the process. Having seen the physical dryer in-person, we… Read More
Week 6 – Site Visit!
We are so excited to be able to do our first site visit this week! We are eagar to see the physical process so that we all have a better understanding of the tools we are tryinf to improve. In… Read More
Week 5 – Hurricane Preparedness
With the recent events of Hurricane Helene, we find it important to review hurricane readiness plans with a special twist – Industrial Manufacturing. From an article by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), there are 4 main steps to ensuring… Read More
Week 4 – New Member and Project Research
Welcome New Team Member Thomas Scott! For our first order of business this week, we would like to welcome our new teammate, Thomas Scott to our team! We are excited to be able to work with you throughout this project. … Read More
Week 3 – Team Name & Logo
We are happy to reintroduce ourselves as Dry Guys! We completed the remaining groundwork such as deciding on our team’s name and having our team logo made, which you can see below! Thank you to Briana Sequeira for helping us… Read More
Week 2 – Meet Our Team!
Welcome to Team 7’s blog site! We are very excited to kick off our design project for our company sponsor, GreenTechnologies, LLC. Focused on improving the company’s drying process for fertilizer manufacturing, we look forward to exploring the world of… Read More