We are focusing on trying to get our project to stay within an appropriate region so the insulation will not let warm air out. We want to keep the warm air in and not let the temp outside the insulation move much. Along with we need the insulation to not be greater then 1 in in width. The materials are reused resources at home and not resin nor fiberglass. The things are a goals we can neither go above as in our width, not use the materials not able to use, or have the insulation to be usable and efficient.
Generate Concepts.
We will use newspaper and bubble wrap for our insulators, combined in multiple layers.
Develop A Solution.
Evaluate Solution.
Here we had the heating for 15 mins and it increased rapidly in those minutes from 30 degrees to 80 degrees.
Now here is the cooling which is a good sign because there isn't much cooling inside for the reason it only goes down to 40 degrees after being at 50 degrees.
Logger Pro Lab equipment is fairly easy to use as long as you know your way around a computer and temperature taking. Honestly the hardest part was making sure the thermometer taking the outside temp did not touch our insulation. It had to be at a specific angle for this to work properly. Thermodynamics is fairly easy when you understand the basics the only hard part I have with the unit is trying to take the information you have and get something out of it when you don't have the equation for it. Mistakes I have personally made is not focusing closely on the equations and understanding the basics, because when I tried to go start working with what I was taught I got even more lost. As I progressed I learned I need to understand all aspects before I can fully know what I'm doing with this part of the thermodynamics.
Present A Solution.
Here we start off with the basis of our project and start taping together the first two layers of our insulation.
Then we are making sure as we add the layers to the insulation, we also make the whole for the insulation. This way we are able to measure the temp inside.
Here we are insulation is all taped up and good, so that when we start taking temps we are able to get promising ones. We don't want holes or gapes that could potentially ruin our data.
Conclusion.
Making our insulation more efficient would probably be more layers even though we didn't exceed the 1 in, if we had more layers we could have kept it insulated better. Meaning adding more to the layers of bubble wrap but also adding upon the building block the layers. Their was probably a greater number because they were more efficient with their building process and looking ahead. Our group jumped right in and started working on our design, we didn't think it out before hand.