One Week!

Good Evening!

Matt here again for the OAVS Capstone Team to update everyone on what we've been up to this past week!  With Maine Day a week away we've been a a busy group for sure.    Our first donated can has been tested and testing has started on our second catch can.  We have 4 donated catch cans plus our own design to test on our flow bench.  We've also spent more than a couple of hours working on our PowerPoint presentation for Maine Day (follow this link to learn more about what Maine Day is).  On top of what it says on the page that link sent you to, Maine Day is the day when all of the MET seniors will be presenting their capstones.  So if you'd like to come and see in person what our team has been up to all year save the date on May 1st!

 As I mentioned earlier we still need to build our own catch can design.  Well as I type this Forest is out in the shop working on our very own catch can design.  For our can we went with a design that we hadn't seen in any of our donated cans.  Most of the catch cans that we've seen use some kind of filter media to pull oil out of the PCV line by impingement.  For our can we decided to go with a cyclone design.  The basic principal of this can is that we introduce the air tangentially into the cyclone chamber of the can, and in turn the heavier particles will be thrown to the outside walls of the can and drip down into the reservoir at the bottom.  This is a vastly different route than our donated cans have gone for oil removal and we're hoping it pays off!!!