Overview:

This was a year-long project during my undergraduate degree. I led a team of three to design and fabricate two solar collectors. To be precise, they are discrete-parabolic solar-thermal collectors. During this project, my peers and I worked with some 500 kg of various metal parts. We designed jigs to speed up the drilling process of aluminium support beams. The energy captured by means of these collectors was utilised in a dessicant-based evaporative cooling system.

Skills Utilised:

• Engineering Design

• Finite Element Analysis

• Design for Manufacture

• Solid Modelling

• Metal Fabrication

• Design of jigs and fixtures

Collaborators:

Suriyaprakash S and Vishal Rajendrakumar