CAPSTONE DESIGN PARTICIPANTS
Tirth Patel
Arvind Balaji
Jacky Liang
Haider Rizvi
Touchless Door Opener
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Every door in the university needs a door-closure system but this requires extensive electrical wiring connected to the building grid. Therefore, a regenerative battery-pack system based on mechanical energy conversion would solve this need. Individuals who are high-risk for sensitive health issues, especially due to COVID-19 require touchless door technology and our product aims to solve this with either chip-technology or by designing an application for secure communication with the door.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Michael Fowler
Zain Asrani
Rithik Chaudhary
Rahim Khan
Muhammad Mahir Ahmed
Designing A Solution To Utilize Waste CO2 Produced During Renewable Natural Gas Generation
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This project was undertaken in partnership with an Ontario renewable natural gas production company to determine the economic feasibility of incorporating a methanation sub-system within their production plant. The developed solution was centered around a Sabatier reactor that utilized a waste CO2 stream and hydrogen generated from electrolysis to effectively increase production by 100%. The current production plant and the proposed methanation sub-system were simulated on Aspen HYSYS. A techno-economic analysis report which included alternatives for renewable electricity generation was prepared for our industrial partner.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Simakov
Casey Dudding, Loria Ou, Amber Rutyna
Water Purification System for Indigenous Community
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Many Indigenous communities around Lake Simcoe are under boil-water or do-not-use advisories due to contaminants such as E.coli, phosphorus, and uranium. The goal of our project is to develop a water purification device that will provide access to clean water in individual households using traditional Indigenous methods, while the government continues to work on large-scale solutions for these communities.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Michael Tam
Sebastian Garcia-Marroquin, Alex Dima, Yazan Al Katanani, Adithya Swaminathan
PPM Partners
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We determined experimentally the most optimal way to find ripeness of bananas for commercial sale in the case of UW food services. Our project moved forward with the use of an electrochemical sensor to determine ppm. Other factors that were monitored were temperature, humidity, and ventilation. It was then modelled using sklearn and nonlinear logistic regression to develop a classifier to find exactly what stage of ripeness the bananas are in. Our system overall would save money for UW food services by increasing information on banana ripeness.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Alexander Penlidids
Robert Ohl
Supplying Safe Drinking Water for Curve Lake First Nation Community
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Canada has the fourth largest volume of fresh water in the world, however, there are many remote, mostly Indigenous communities that lack access to clean drinking water. This project completed a design of a water purification system for the Curve Lake First Nations Community, which involved the use of a filtration system, a chlorination system, and a UV system to purify the water.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Xianshe Feng