https://portfolio.will-serv.duckdns.org/tags/heat-transfer/ Recent content in Heat Transfer on William Schrab | Engineering Portfolio Hugo -- 0.146.0 en-us Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://portfolio.will-serv.duckdns.org/posts/water-heater/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://portfolio.will-serv.duckdns.org/posts/water-heater/ <p><strong>Work in progress page</strong></p> <h2 id="project-goal">Project Goal</h2> <p>The goal of this project was to create a cart that could be used to test an electric heat pump on a water heater.</p> <h2 id="research-goals">Research Goals</h2> <p>The research being conducted is to improve the cold weather efficiency of heat pumps, in particular those in water heaters. As temperatures near the evaporator side of a heat exchanger get below 0 the water that condenses on them can freeze. This freezing can cause frost build up and greatly decrease the performance of a heat pump. Here a coating is in developmenet to greatly delay the time until frost growth and spreading</p> https://portfolio.will-serv.duckdns.org/posts/heat-map/ Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://portfolio.will-serv.duckdns.org/posts/heat-map/ <h2 id="skills-used">Skills used</h2> <ul> <li>Python</li> <li>Visual Studio Code</li> </ul> <h2 id="final-goal">Final Goal</h2> <p>Create a program that displays a heatmap that updates in real time for a space. With a final goal of being able to run as a containerized add-on in the home automation software Home-Assistant</p> <h2 id="progress">Progress</h2> <p>Currently the program runs in the simple python GUI editor tkinter. Users see a grid which they can select where their sensors are on the grid and enter temperature values for those sensors, to act as an temporary manual input.</p>