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Item 2022-2023 AIChE student design competition(2023-04-05) Linna, MatthewGlobal Petrochemicals (GP) currently is a leading manufacturer of basic chemicals and high-performance polymers. As a result, the company has a substantial customer base. In recent years, the customer base has begun demanding GP to act in reducing the amount of plastic waste worldwide as well as produced by the company. This pressure has led GP to make a commitment to produce 10% of its virgin resin-quality plastics from recovered plastic in the near future. Currently, this is an ambitious goal that requires significant applications of new process technology and major investments. With the additional process unit in the following documentation, GP would establish efficient and effective plastic waste collection, while also utilizing this plastic waste to create the basic chemicals that are in demand from GP's customer base. A preliminary project design has been completed for this unit.Item Speedfest Black Team senior design(2/23/2023) Kane, KillianNote: There is no true "written" report to accompany this senior design project. The Chief Engineer led a team of 21 other seniors, and they presented a large portion of the critical design review (submitted below as the project 'report'). The following summarizes the project and its outcome.Item Edmond multi-modal transport hub(5/5/2023) Haggard, NatalieIn my design proposal for the Edmond Multi-Modal Transport Hub, our primary focus was not on the development of a new monument for the city, but of a revival and recontextualization of the existing Rodkey Flour Mill as an icon for the city along with our project. My proposal aims not to compete with the existing flour mill but complement it in formal expression. However, it is important that it stands out as a distinctly new object, in direct contrast with the surrounding historic downtown. My goal is to redefine the public's association with these objects, and create a space where people are now allowed to interact with these historic forms in a way that allows them to build an appreciation for their towns past.Item Inventory management and facility layout design for AXEL Americas(5/5/2023) Groenteman, Cameron; Martinez, Iris; Carter, Keaton; Durkee, ColeIn our project, we found a balance between the amount of raw materials and packaging inventory to meet production requirements and inventory holding costs. We also designed a facility layout for storing and locating inventory that prioritizes FIFO (first in first out), accessibility, and safety.Item FAA power tower(4/28/2023) Doudican, John; Foister, Jaymy; Ahmed, OthmanThe FAA utilizes Relocatable Power Towers that operate independent of the power grids. The issue with the current system is the management system on these towers is proprietary so when the system fails, the FAA must pay the vendor to repair it. The goal of this project is to reduce costs by designing a replacement Relocatable Tower for the FAA using non-proprietary commercial off the shelf products including generators, chargers, inverters, and 48V bank of batteries. Our team will provide a more sustainable and efficient replacement power tower that will have the capability to provide up to 3000W continuously and be quickly installed. Using parts of the system that the FAA has in their current power tower, our team has looked into replacing the inverter, solar charge controllers, solar PDP's, automatic generator start, battery bank, and battery monitoring system.