2019

As part of my Heat Transfer Lab my junior year, I was tasked to team up with two other students and build a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger would be evaluated on the overall heat transfer coefficient for the hot fluid. 

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Our team wanted to challenge ourselves and take on some risks with this projects by making a parallel-plate heat exchange. This heat exchange theoretically would give us more surface area and minimum thickness of the heat exchanging interface of any other options we considered. However, it was the most daunting to manufacture in house for a reasonable price. With some clever design, we were able to very easily manufacture our heat exchange with only aluminum plate and laser-cut rubber gasket. We went through two prototypes before landing on our final design, resulting is a product that performed well and had no leaks.