Because of our northern climate here in Maine, ATS would like to explore to possibility of implementing a novel thermal energy recovery concept within its offices. In order to test some of these components, a source of high pressure and high temperature gas is needed. ATS would like to explore the technology available to amateur rocketeers and perhaps identify suitable off the shelf technologies for use in testing. It would be useful to have a facility which could visualize the flow over objects such as automobile bodies, airplane fuselages and wings. We can simulate that in the laboratory with a smaller flow rate over a stationary object smaller in size than the real one.
More recent devices are more likely to vaporize something such as an oil or wax rather than burn it.
This project will be a research oriented conceptual design type of project as opposed to a production of product oriented project. There are numerous areas in this design which might lead in the fall semester to a need to do experimental work in the spring semester. A small butcher shop needs a refrigeration system for all the refrigeration needs of the facility. The design will involve determining the loads for the various spaces which include both long term structure load as well as short term pull down load due to change of contents in some areas. Possibilities for energy savings through staging and unequal parallel operation of refrigerating equipment will be investigated.