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Sorry I am a little late with my weekly blog but this past week has been really busy especially with the holiday weekend. Last Wednesday I started two online classes that I enrolled in through ASU. I’m taking a basic calculus III class, as well as a Beatles class (the musicians). So far Calc III has taken up a good chunk of my free time and a bit of my weekend, however, because of this 3 day weekend I am actually ahead of the class so I’m making sure I don’t fall behind.

As far as my work and projects go the mechanical project fabrication portion is taking a bit longer than should be to get done. This is mainly because of getting our hands on some tools to actual getting the work done. None the less, one of our group member brought some tools from home so we should be finish up this week. Everything is coming a long nicely, even though we don’t have everything on the skid yet we have been comissioning everything as it came in. The solar panel took some time to understand but with a little time and a call to customer service we understand our electrical source really well.

My computational modeling work has also been really rewarding, so far I have been just computing different numbers to see the change in flux and temperature throughout the system. It is taking a good amount of my time, mainly because once I started testing some longer module lengths, the longer it is taking for the program to run. For example I am running a geometry length of 0.5 cm with the permeate temperature at 45 C and flowing in at 4 cm/s, it is going to take about 25-30 min to run the program. As to a smaller length like 0.02 with the same parameter which can take about 8-10 min. I have learned that once the program has runned a few times it take the time is shorter by a few minutes. The beauty of technology, what takes me 30 min to crunch a few number would probably take a few days to run actual number on a full scale system.

Till next time,

Hazel nut (Evelyn)

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