mackenzie mota solar oven
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Designing a Solar Oven By Mackenzie Mota
Monday, May 20, 13
Imagine for design # 1Idea # 1
Our materials are cotton , newspaper and white cloth .
We need 3 units .
The advantage of this idea is they are not going to hurt the environment and it will probably warm up a little faster .
The disadvantages of this idea is it will burn to much .
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Imagine for design # 1
Idea # 2
Our materials are cotton and foam.
We need 3 units .
The advantages of this idea it's going to cook faster .
The disadvantages of this idea is it will not help the environment .
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Plan for design # 1 Top view
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Plan for design # 1Side view
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Material Units We will use the materials by
Cotton 1 We will put it on the side flat.
White cloth 1We will put it on
one side then another .
Newspaper 1We will put the
newspaper at the bottom , flat
Plan for design # 1
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Design# 1 Reduce
NaturalOr
ProcessedReuse Recycle Add
Points
Cotton 1 unit 1 unit Processed No No 4
Points
WhiteCloth1 unit
1 unit Processed Yes No 2 Points
NewsPaper1 unit
1 unit Processed Yes Yes 0 Points
Our total impact score is 6 points .
Impact score for design # 1
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Solar oven testing the Sun # 1Time Temperature
0 minutes 25 ° c
5 minutes 44.7 °c
10 minutes 46.3 ° c
15 minutes 49.4 ° c
20 minutes 59.7 ° c
25 minutes 54.9 ° c
30 minutes
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Solar oven in the shade # 1Time ( minutes ) Temperature
1 36.9 ° c2 36.3 ° c3 34.0 ° c4 33. 1 ° c5 32.3 ° c6 31.0 ° c78910
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Create for design # 1
Our heat score is our solar oven maximum temperature subtracted from the control oven 60 ° c - 55 ° c = 5 ° c
Our time score is the number of minutes it took to cool down which was 3 minutes .
Our total impact score was 6 points .
Our total score for the solar oven is 2 points .
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Improve for design # 1The total score for our first solar oven was 2 points .
The parts of our solar oven design that did worked well were cotton and cloth because it helped it heat faster .
The parts of our solar oven design that did not work well were the newspaper because it did not helped to heat it faster .
We are going to try to improve our heat , time and impact scores .
We will improve our heat , time and impact score by using different materials like dark cloth , foam and cotton because it will help get a high score .
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Plan for design # 2 Top view
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Plan for design #2Side view
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Plan for design # 2
Material Units How will we use the material ?
Cotton 2 units We will put it on each side .
Foam 1 unitWe will put it on
the bottom of the box flat .
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Impact score for design # 2Design
# 2 ReduceNatural
Or processed
Reuse Recycle Add points
Cotton2 units
4 Points Processed No No 7 points
Foam 1 unit 1 point Processed No No 4 points
Our total impact score is 11 points .Monday, May 20, 13
Solar Oven Testing in The Sun
Time Temperature
0 minutes 24.4 ° c
5 minutes 41.2 ° c
10 minutes 42.0 ° c
15 minutes 44.0 ° c
20 minutes 50. 1 ° c
25 minutes 52.1 ° c
30 minutes 47.9 ° c
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Solar Oven Testing in The Shade
Time Temperature 1 minute 40.6 ° c2 minutes 34.53 minutes 31.1 ° c4 minutes 29.9 ° c5 minutes 28.5 ° c6 minutes 28.1° c7 minutes 27.6 ° c8 minutes 27.1 ° c9 minutes 27.0 ° c10 minutes 27.0 ° c
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Create for design # 2
Our heat score is our solar oven maximum temperature subtracted from the control oven : 52 - 53 = -1 .
Our time score is the number of minutes it took to cool down which was 3 minutes .
Our total impact score was 11 points .
Our new total score for the solar oven is - 9 .
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Reflection Our improved design did not work well because it did not have good insulators . The materials we change were light cloth and newspaper . The foam was a poor insulator because we did not place the foam in the right place so it did not warm up quickly. In the data chart the highest score was 52.1 with our improved design, but we had the highest temperature of 60 with our first design.
If we would improve again we would change the materials because the temperature did not go that high. To get a higher temperature, we would put our insulators directly in the sun to heat up.
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