Outdoor Classroom Design
The Project
Despite the name of this project, it has quite a few different parts. This includes what we learned before working on the actual design as well as entirely different labs we did to learn the concepts. I will be dividing this update into different sections to divide for all of these different things.
Solar Water Heater
This was a long project where we had to create a hot water heater using only the sun's rays. Every group came up with a different design and we all competed for who could heat up the most water the to the highest temperature. My group came up with an idea where we had a bottle insulated with fluff at the top that was hooked up to a plastic tube. This tube was connected to a copper pipe inside of a cardboard box. This box was also insulated and it did not have a top, instead it had a plastic wrap top to let light in. The inside was also lined with aluminum foil so all of the light that did not hit the copper pipe would be reflected off of the aluminum foil until it hopefully hit the copper pipe. Once through the box, the copper pipe then connected to another plastic tube that connected to another insulated bottle. The bottle at the end would be taken off, and the water inside would be poured back into the bottle at the start. this design worked well at the start until it stated leaking, it leaked so much that we barely had any at the end. We started with 200 ml of water and ended with 50 ml of water. At least that water changed from a temperature of 13 degrees celsius to 18 degrees celsius. In the end, we did not do too well compared to the rest of the groups.
Solar Water Heater
This was a long project where we had to create a hot water heater using only the sun's rays. Every group came up with a different design and we all competed for who could heat up the most water the to the highest temperature. My group came up with an idea where we had a bottle insulated with fluff at the top that was hooked up to a plastic tube. This tube was connected to a copper pipe inside of a cardboard box. This box was also insulated and it did not have a top, instead it had a plastic wrap top to let light in. The inside was also lined with aluminum foil so all of the light that did not hit the copper pipe would be reflected off of the aluminum foil until it hopefully hit the copper pipe. Once through the box, the copper pipe then connected to another plastic tube that connected to another insulated bottle. The bottle at the end would be taken off, and the water inside would be poured back into the bottle at the start. this design worked well at the start until it stated leaking, it leaked so much that we barely had any at the end. We started with 200 ml of water and ended with 50 ml of water. At least that water changed from a temperature of 13 degrees celsius to 18 degrees celsius. In the end, we did not do too well compared to the rest of the groups.