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The Perfect Coffee Cup, Suzanne Bowers, Jessica Ingram, David Murphy, Gillian Stavlas
The Perfect Coffee Cup, Suzanne Bowers, Jessica Ingram, David Murphy, Gillian Stavlas
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To design a coffee cup that will maintain the coffee at the optimal drinking temperature for several hours using Phase Change Material, PCM. The importance of this project is designing a coffee cup that will retain its temperature for a prolonged period of time giving the consumer plenty of time to finish their coffee at the desired consumption temperature. We designed a double walled cup that would contain the PCM. Heat transfer calculations were done for different materials such as acrylic, glass, and stainless steel with various thicknesses for each material. These calculations were used to decide on the ideal …