More Designs
Stainless steel and MORE! Here are a few more steel designs that I created, along with a glass product and a tankless water heater.
I created a 6"x4" Jacketed Collection Base.
The 6”x4” Jacketed Base design was needed to create an intermediate-size “Diamond Miner”. For some customers, the 4” “Diamond Miner” was too small, and the 12” “Diamond Miner” was too expensive.
Sectional of 6" Diamond Miner
Here is an example of the two previously designed diamond miners with the new design in the middle. Creating a variety of sized Diamond Miners allows customers to choose what design best suits their needs.
Tri-Clamp Material Hopper. The Tri-Clamp Material Hopper was needed to speed up the time it takes to “load” a column. Made from 304 Stainless steel and a 3A polish finish, these hoppers are rated for food-safe sterile use.
Here is an example of a Tri-Clamp Material Hopper clamped to a material column and a reference person for scale.
In this Tri-Clamp Material Hopper design, I experimented with a few different sizes and angles for the hopper. It needed to be big enough to load a sufficient amount of biomass at a time, but also made with cost in mind.
This is an example of using glass textures and modeling/rendering glass products. This is a 20L Round Bottom Boiling Flask that was reverse-engineered in order to investigate new suppliers of the product and for customers who needed replacement flasks.
Manufacturer View/Reference for customers
Main component of Tankless Water Heater
Here is the visual reference of a tankless water heater setup. It was assembled by sourcing existing products and piecing them together to make a new unique bundled product. Customers were having a hard time assembling this bundle. With this example, customers were able to put together the bundle much easier.
Why were these designs needed?
To create an intermediate-sized “Diamond Miner”
To make it easier to “load” material columns
To investigate purchasing replacement products from new supplier
To assist in the installation of tankless water heater setup
What design skills were used in this project?
Sketching from standard dimensions and equations
3D sketching and creating custom planes
Volumetric calculations
Creating various configurations
Create parts from sketches with splines
Creating products that reference other parts
Mating complex assemblies
Render multiple views
Producing manufacturer 2D drawings
Sourcing existing products suitable for the design
Using various appearances and textures
Researching other hopper designs
Researching tankless water heaters