Heat pipe design and it's application for Cooking

Week One   

   On week one the group presented the project design on how to use a heat pipe for cooking purpose. Before the designing of the project, the group spends several days researching and gathering information on how a heat pipe can be design to make cooking more efficient.

   Heat pipe is a device that transfers heat by using principle of thermo conductivity: It manages the transfer of heat between solid surface. The following materials can be used to design a heat pipe; copper, silver, aluminum or stainless steal. And for the working fluid, water, methanol and hydrogen can be used.

  To make cooking more efficient and reduce the amount of energy getting lost during cooking:  group one will design a cooking pot that uses heat pipe to cook the food. The designing of the heat pipe will be broken down into three parts, 1) A vacuum tight or vessel- that will shield the working fluid and capillary working structure, 2) Working fluid- water will be used because of it's ability to operate at a temperature range of 1 to 305C and 3) Capillary wick structure - this will enable working fluid to move from condenser back to evaporator section. To design the heat pipe the group will obtain a hollow copper and distilled water. A hollow copper of about half an inch will be filled with distilled water and heated to a boiling point to allow vapor to form. Once the vapor has formed the top of the hollow copper will be sealed, this will create liquid vapor phase and allow condensation and evaporation to take place. The next step will be to put the design to test to make sure that it works as intended.