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Thread: Student help - creating frost?
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12-10-2006, 07:43 PM #1
Student help - creating frost?
HI there
I'm a final year Industrial Design student studying at Brunel University London. Part of my course involves carrying out a major design project, researching, designing and creating prototypes of a product of our choice.
I'm looking into creating large amounts of 'frost' to be used in conjunction with my project.
My initial plan, is to spray a fine mist of water onto a large plate attached to a cooling unit (at around -10³C), so that this mist is converted into ice, and can then be removed as a fine 'ice dust' or frost.
I want this to be quite a compact unit, with a plate (and therefore cooling unit) no larger than 0.4m³.
If this makes sense, I need to convert roughly 0.06kg's of water to ice per cycle, which should take around 18Kj of energy (and I want to do this quickly, at least once every 10seconds, hence I'm using a very fine mist of water).
Can you suggest any of your equipment I could use in order to do this (in an insulated chamber obviously), or what type of equipment I need to be looking at?
Thanks for any help you can impart.
Yours sincerely Matthew Barnett
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13-10-2006, 12:34 AM #2
Re: Student help - creating frost?
I'm looking into creating large amounts of 'frost' to be used in conjunction with my project.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/varia/snow.html
What is the end product you are seeking? Frozen water changes its personality as soon as it meets new frozen water. Your idea seems ambitious, and I expect you to hold your cards close to your chest if this is something you hope to patent. But right now, I do not see anything you couldn't do with a a flaker style ice machine, adapted or tweaked.
But if you want frost, this has to be formed during the spray, not at the collection point. (I think you want "hiryla".)