diff --git a/content/academia/cheme-car.md b/content/academia/cheme-car.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f9c229 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/academia/cheme-car.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: "The ChemE Car that Cud: AIChE ChemE Car Engineering Design Proposal" +date: 2019-05-14 +cardImage: cannulated-cows +draft: false +featured: true +keywords: + - chemical engineering + - AIChE + - radiation + - rumen + - microbial electrolysis cells +type: "Thesis" +authors: + - Christensen, Thomas Allen, II +link: 'https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11919/3817' +journal: "University of Wyoming Honors Program" +location: "Laramie, Wyoming" +--- + +The ChemE Car That Cud showcases Wyoming's dominant industries of agriculture +and mining by utilizing rumen fluid from a cannulated beef cow to generate +hydrogen to be used in a hydrogen fuel cell and radioactive cesium, a byproduct +of uranium that is often obtained from Wyoming's mines, to time the car's stop. +The concentration of cesium-137 source is measured using the radioactive decay +of cesium shielded by aluminum. The painted aluminum chassis was obtained from a +previous team at UW, and modified using plastic k'nex toys to adapt to the +current power source and stopping mechanism.