Meeting start time: 3:30 pm
Members/Grad Students/Mentors Present: Jake, Eli, Kevin, Mathew, Jose, Aaron, Sage.
- Today’s meeting started with a presentation of the Linde-Hampson cycle, the basic cycle that the LN2 test runs off of. The point of the presentation was to educate all members on the actual system process that is taking place and how it moves from point A to B.
- It was explained to Jake that our system would be bare bones, so he asked us a few questions including: have we taken into account the fact that when venting from the gas bottle, both temperature and pressure in the gas bottle will drop as well. This means that our test will not be based on steady-state, but transient.
- Jake ran through the thermodynamics of the gas bottle venting ( no picture was taken at the time, one will be added later ) and it was found that our transient measurements would for the enthalpy term.
- Then we ran through with Jake what we plan on doing next for testing. We set a deadline by the end of the week next week to begin liquefying Nitrogen!!!!!!!!
- Then with the help of Eli, the team cleaned and seal the VT fully, including a small indium extrusion demo.
- Testing to measure volumetric flow rate from a gas line will be taken tomorrow (5/31/2017)
What’s left for initial testing:
- Stainless steel tubing and a 1/16th die are on order for the VCR connection into the VT.
- Modifications geometry wise must be made in the recuperator so that the VT will fit.
- Safety paperwork must still be written
- Waiting to hear on the progress from the gas booster team.