Week Three  

   In week three our group visited the workshop to learn more about the tools that are going to be used to build the heat pipe. Apart from the copper pipe and media, other tools that can be used to build the heat pipe are welding torch that is attached to a gas and aluminum thin wires.

  Since we are designing something that can be used for cooking, our original plan is to fit the heat pipe inside a cooking pot. The heat pipe will measure 8inches and 0.5inch diameter. The picture below shows the original design of the heat pipe before attached to the cooking pot.

   Some of the problem we might encounter with our design is the use of water as our media. Copper has a very high electric conductivity, which might cause some of the water inside the copper to evaporate fast that we will want.

A copper pipe and mesh wire