4/12/07
| Jordan’s Reimbursements |
| I have been reimbursed $115.92 for project expenses. |
-Jordan
10/30/06
-Jordan
10/30/06
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| Figure 5: Here are my personal expenses to date. |
-Randi
10/13/06
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| Figure 4: Here is a sketch of the remaining construction. We need to cut a window in the cylinder, taking care not to crack it. We need to cut the existing wood disks to size and router some supporting holes for the wood blocks. The dimensions are shown above, for the most part. The upper and lower chambers will be seprate and removable. They will just slide into the cast cylinder body. The upper acrylic plate and the lower reservoir still need to be constructed as well. I would like some input if anyone has any idea how to build those. Fiberglass is an option, but it is not very asthetic… I think the new cast cylinder will provide a much more robust design! Please email me with any questions. |
-Randi
09/21/06
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| Figure 3: A general drawing of the tornado machine. The three primary components of the Tornado Machine are shown: the upper chamber where the radial blower is located, the lower chamber where the tracer (i.e. ultrasonic humidifier) is positioned, and the tornado chamber where the circulation generator and visible vortex are located. |
-Jordan
09/05/06
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| Figure 2: This is a very basic representation of the construction of the tornado machine. The fan is modeled in the upper chamber and the humidifier in the lower chamber. |
-Randi
08/30/06
Feel free to use this page as a discussion board amongst team members of the Tornado Machine Senior Design Project. If you have any thoughts, pictures, or something else that you want to share with the group, post it here. For example, I attached a schematic of the Tornado Machine air flow circulation pathway and some descriptive text below.
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| Figure 1: Schematic of the air flow through the fan and circulation generator. The exhaust from the (1) fan located in the upper chamber is directed through the porous tubing to the (2) ball-joint (which may be closed and opened manually) and then directed through the (3) PVC pipe with small holes oriented along the circumference of the tornado machine chassis. This redirected exhaust airflow produces a (4) net circulation within the tornado machine and the (5) updraft due to the fan culminates into a tornado-like vortex. Figure not drawn to scale. |
-Curtis
