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ThERmAL CoNTRoL FoR EmERGENCY ShELTERS
Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Program
CLASS
ENGR 498A/B
SpoNSoR
Paragon Space Development
Corporation®
SpoNSoR mENToR/ADVISoR
Christie Iacomini
pRoJECT mENToR
Doug May
TEAm mEmBERS
Sean Morehouse (ME)
Evan Dunn (EE)
Daniela Taborga (IE)
Joe Levy (ME)
David Renner (ME)
Mason Shaw (SE)
EE = Electrical Engineering
IE = Industrial Engineering
ME = Mechanical Engineering
SE = Systems Engineering
TEAm 4921: pRoJECT SummARY
Paragon Space Development
Corporation ® is a premier provider
of environmental controls
for extreme and hazardous
environments. Paragon has asked
us to design a prototype thermal
control system for an existing
emergency shelter in the mine
industry. Currently, the shelters
provide oxygen supply and carbon
dioxide scrubbing for trapped miners and isolation from the external environment.
However, an effective cooling system is not available in many existing shelters.
Therefore, the focus of our design is to build a thermal control system for use in
mine shelters.
The selected thermal control system is an absorption cooler. The central features
of the absorption cooler are an evaporator, which cools down the air via evaporative
cooling, and an absorber, which absorbs water back out of the cooled air using a
hygroscopic lithium bromide salt solution.
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