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Recycling Metal Chips Into Usable Materials, Alex Mortensen, Ben Mortensen
Recycling Metal Chips Into Usable Materials, Alex Mortensen, Ben Mortensen
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
This report entails the scope, design considerations, and plans for creating a metal chip converter into metal briquettes. The construction is a set of machines with multiple processes to make the conversion happen. The process includes washing fine metal chips, drying them off, compressing them, and melting them down into usable briquettes. This project is intended to make a simple process to recycle metal chips into usable material for reuse. The project's objective is to reduce the costs of storage and recycling waste by offering a solution to recycle it into materials the shop can reuse.
Quickcut Waterjet Cutter, Kennedy Dunn, Jacob Storrow, Benjamin Laughrey
Quickcut Waterjet Cutter, Kennedy Dunn, Jacob Storrow, Benjamin Laughrey
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
The QuickCut Waterjet Cutter was created in 2019 as a senior design project. This is the third iteration of the waterjet cutter. The goal of this project was to create an operable CNC waterjet cutter that is able to cut 1/16” tensile specimens consisting of nonferrous metal or plastic. This machine will be utilized in the Manufacturing Laboratory at the University of Akron to provide education to interested students on the waterjet cutting process, how it operates, and industrial application of the technology. Waterjet cutting is a subtractive manufacturing process which is recognized for its specialized applications such as cutting …