Fig. Main electrical box
Automation dry run
Adsorption stage
Air evacuation stage
Vapor stripping stage
Final desorption stage
Pressurization stage
3D peinting monolith sorbent structure
Fig. User interface main control panel
Fig. User interface manual control panel
Fig. Functional decomposition of entire system
Fig. PID diagram
Fig. Physical diagram
Fig. Control Block Diagram
Fig. Subsystem block diagram
Fig. Power and control diagram
For our initial prototyping ANSYS fluent was used to model the behavior of water vapor as it passes through various sorbent structures. Various graphs and visuals from the data can be seen below. More information is available in report 2.
Fig. Quarter of monolith mesh and full laminate mesh
Fig. Pressure drop for monolith and laminate structures at various saturation pressures and velocities
Fig. pressure drop across length of monolith
Fig. Comparison of channel geometry for monolith structure
For our initial prototyping, we began to develop a PLC control loop to control the final apparatus. A summary of ladders and the first ladder may be seen below. More information is available in report 2.
