Chemical and Materials Engineering

Project 

The project requires a basic understanding of Design (ideally using Fusion 360 design), 3D printing and coding.

The student does not need to be an expert, as expert advice will be available.

The work will be carried out either at UoA in Chemical and Materials Engineering labs or the MSL Research Facility in Albany.

The role

The project will look at upgrading a profiling unit that correlates temperature and greenhouse gas composition. The unit has a moving gantry onto which sensors are placed inside a PVC tube. The gantry is magnetically coupled to a motorised lead screw that allows the gantry to slowly move up and down, and the temperature profile obtained within the tube over a period of several days.

Upgrades will depend on the expertise of the student, but will include:

• Redesign and 3D printing of the gantry mechanism
• Rewriting the control code
• Developing an LCD display for controlling the gantry
• Developing the mechanism for introducing gases of different composition