The purpose of this project is to help rapidly cool a specific aluminum part, AL6005, for MI Metals, Inc. Their cooling approach now deforms the metal, increases the number of parts low in quality, and creates a mess on the floor. Currently, the process uses both air and water to cool the product from 950°F to 400°F in one minute. The new design requires that the floor remain dry in the workplace. Their current process causes significant amounts of water to splash out. Water on the workplace floor can cause injuries for workers on the job. Another important goal is to maintain or increase production standards of the number of parts produced per hour. Research on the properties of the specific type of metal helps to understand why the defects occur. The last major project piece is the amount of heat to remove from the process to meet or improve the current rate of production. The work involves supplying the tank with a device to make the water colder once it finishes cooling the material. The analysis uses MATLAB for solving the calculations to find the best conditions to cool the part for the desired goals of the project. The solution for reducing the amount of water on the floor when it goes through the process involves an improvement in minimizing the speed of water out of their current design. The new cooling method serves to help many different industries and other students. The application of a new device to solve the problem benefits schools to share new ways of cooling effectively in the aluminum forming processes. Parts with no defects benefit any company that uses aluminum in their products with an increase in quality.
Jad Farran
Project Manager
jef15@my.fsu.eduJad Farran is a senior in Mechanical Engineering, with a focus in dynamics and leadership. He will be graduating in May 2019. His goal is to develop his career within a company over the long-term.
Jonathan Cooper
Analytical Engineer
jac14m@my.fsu.eduJonathan Cooper is a senior in Mechanical Engineering, with a focus in thermal fluids. He will be graduating in May 2019. His goal is to develop thermal fluid systems to benefit the world.
Lorenzo Sanders
Manufacturing Engineer
Lorenzo Sanders is a senior mechanical engineering student specializing in dynamics and control systems. He will graduate in Spring 2019 with a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
James Kiel
Geometric Integrator
jmk13b@my.fsu.eduJames Kiel is a senior in mechanical engineering specializing in aeronautics and thermal fluids. He will be graduating in May 2019. He is interested in attaining a position in the aeronautics industry, pursue a masters degree, and pass the FE exam in the summer.
Anna Mills
Simulation Engineer
Amm15s@my.fsu.eduAnna Mills is a senior mechanical engineering student specializing in mechanics and materials. She will graduate in August 2019 with a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Economics. She seeks to obtain her Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering in order to research sustainable power storage and transmission methods.
4-11-19: Engineering Design Day - Prensentation
4-11-19: Engineering Design Day - Poster
3-25-19: Design Review 6 - Presentation
2-18-19: Design Review 5 - Presentation
1-18-19: Design Review 4 - Presentation
12-6-18: Virtual Design Review 3 - Poster
11-15-18: Virtual Design Review 2 - Presentation
4-12-19: Conference Paper
4-5-19: Operation Manual
2-28-19: Risk Assessment
12-7-18: Project Plan
11-2-18: Concept Selection
10-29-18: Concept Generation
10-19-18: Targets
09-28-18: Functional Decomposition
09-24-18: Customer Needs
09-18-18: Project Scope
We would like to thank MI Metals and our project liaison, Dave Yanek, for sponsoring this project and helping guide us through the project development. We would also like to thank Orion Yeung and Jared Gremley for his extensive help in conceptual calculation for our project. Finally, we would like to thank Dr. McConomy for helping guide us through the senior design process and Dr. Fumitake Kametani for his advice and guidance.
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering is the sponsoring department for the project. This project is part of the Mechanical Engineering Senior Design course.
MI Metals
MI Metals, Inc. is a nationwide leader in aluminum part manufacturing. We have in-house capabilities that include extruding standard or custom aluminum shapes in either mill, clear coat anodize or wet solvent paint finishes.