Shortlisted!

Yay, good news we have been shortlisted for the final, we will update soon..

Design of a Turbo

These are some drawings of a Turbo by Honeywell:

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Our Turbo Engine Model

After the engineer, John Grennan from Honeywell visited our class, we decided to build a model of a turbo for an engine and we were trying to find a motor for the model.

We thought about using a small petrol motor but opted for an electric motor instead. We thought about just using an electric battery and hook it up to the combustion wheel, but to hook up a battery to it would almost be impossible because a big battery would need all sorts of leads. Also a battery does not have a spinning mechanism, which could power the combustion wheels and it would probably not spin it fast enough.

After the site visit we knew we would need an electric motor.

Looking at all the combustion wheels in the factory and seeing them spin with the exhaust fumes off an engine, we knew we would have to find a way of using an electric motor to do the job that the exhaust fumes did.

John Grennan (Honeywell engineer) said that he could make a part that would connect to the engine and the two wheels and that would power the turbo, but that it would be at much lower speeds then it would actually be spinning in a real engine. In a real engine it would spin at speeds around one hundred and eighty thousand RPM and we actually wanted to get it going to that speed, but our motor would only spin at one thousand five hundred and fifty RPM. 

only spin at one thousand five hundred and fifty RPM.

When we thought about it we decided that if we got it going at one hundred and eighty thousand RPM it would be no good for a demonstration, whereas one thousand five hundred and fifty RPM would be more than enough for just a demonstration.

We wondered if an ordinary socket would actually be powerful enough to keep the engine running at 1550 RPM for a small amount of time for the demonstration. There is also a stand so that the engine will stay stable and it won’t shudder or bounce and damage the compressor wheels. The motor is quite small but it puts out about nine to twenty seven watts witch is really quite powerful for its size. It needs one hundred and fifteen or two hundred and thirty volts to power it.

Matthew’s dad works for slushy so then Matthew thought about where to get an engine so he asked his dad if he might have a motor. At the time his dad didn’t have anything but after a day or two his dad came home with a small slushy motor. Matthew brought into school the next day. So then we asked john if it might work and he said he’ll see if he could make a part to fit it after a day or two he emailed us and said that it would work. Then we plugged it in to see if it would work after sitting around at his dads work for a while and it worked perfectly. Then john sent the stats and an animated drawing of it.

So then we asked John Grennan in Honeywell if the motor might work and he said he would see if he could make a part to fit it. After a day or two he emailed us and said that it would work. Then John sent on the statistics and animated drawings of it. (Please see our website www.stdeclanstechforlife.tk for a viewing of this)

Another boy in our class, Adam Daniels did up some drawings with his dad as to how the motor would work attached to the booster.

After liaising with John Grennan, John organised a prototype to be made up with our motor attached to the booster, which enables it to do 1,550 revolutions per minute.

We are enclosing the prototype with our project.

-Jason Stewart & Matthew Long (construction team)

ENGINEERING COMPANIES WATERFORD

MEDICAL

Genzyme

Aventis Pharma

Best Chemicals and Equipment

These are medical companies that help cure illness.

CONSTRUCTION

Tom O’ Brien Construction

Building Contractor

These are construction companies that build various buildings around Waterford.

HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT

APS Materials

Bausch & Lomb

These companies supply hospital equipment.

GAMES

Hasbro

This company produces games and is known all over the world.

ELECTRONICS

Calmark Ireland

Calmark’s core business is the provision of sub-contract manufacturing services in metal fabricated products to a range of industries including healthcare, electronics, computers, military, automotive and test & measurement.

MOBILE PHONE MASTS

Meteor

This is one of Ireland’s biggest phone companies.

COMPUTERS

Codico Distributors

Codico makes computers, ink and high definition printers.

ENERGY

Ollie Mc Phillips

Ollie Mc Phillips is a company that supplies renewable energy.

WIND FARMS

RTS Heating and Cooling 

 RTS Heating is a company who makes air conditioning and supplies heating for your house.

ROADS

National Road Authority

The National Road Authority builds and designs roads.

                                 CAR COMPONENTS

Honeywell

This company makes engines for cars and aircraft.

This is the company we are doing our Technology for Life project on.

ROADS

National Road Authority

The National Road Authority builds and designs roads.

                                 CAR COMPONENTS

Honeywell

This company makes engines for cars and aircraft.

This is the company we are doing our Technology for Life project on.

                       RAIN GAUGE

We made a rain gauge by cutting off the top of a bottle and then placing it into the base of the bottle upside down. We put it in the school’s garden. How we measured it was by going out into the garden every morning at about 9 a.m to see if there was any rain in the bottle, if there was we would measure it by putting a ruler against the bottle to see how much was in it. After we measured it we would go back to class and put the records we got from the rain gauge on to the chart we made.

our poster!

This Is A Turbo Engine

This is what a turbo engine looks like!