OSU MINI MALTER

Sponsor – OSU Food Science Department

ME 497/498

Project Number: 73

Faculty Advisor: Joe Hortnagl

Sponsor Mentor: Tom Shellhammer, Jeff Clawson

Oral Presentation 2

Tyler Froemming

10/28/2010

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

•The OSU Pilot brewery, located in the Department of Food Science and Technology, is the perfect facility for testing, developing, and demonstrating the suitability of Oregon barley for Oregon malts. •The brewery requires approximately 200 to 300 lbs of barley to produce malt for a 100 gallon brew.

•Mechanical Engineering students will design, build, and develop a pilot malting unit - a “flex box” for steeping,germinating, and kilning in a single unit.

•The flex box will removethe malting bottleneck and get Oregon grain flowing to Oregon glasses.

Sponsor – OSU Food Science Department

Tyler Froemming 10/28/10 Project 73: OSU Mini Malter

DESIGNS CONSIDERED

Rectangular Single-Chambered Malter This malter will be a cube shaped design It will perform the steeping, germinating, and kilning process all in one

chamber. Advantage: Can meet our size constraint by making the box long Disadvantage: Will not mix the barley as thorough. Hard to mix barley

in the corners. Circular Single-Chambered Malter

This malter will be a cylindrical shaped design Again we will design this malter to perform all three processes in one

vessel. Advantage: Will be able to mix easier and more thorough Disadvantage: Will be bigger

Two-Chambered Malter This malter design has 2 different chambers so 2 of the processes are

performed in one chamber and the other process is performed separately.

Advantage: Easier to interface all of the components with different chambers

Disadvantage: Would have to add an extra step to move the barley from one chamber to the other.

Tyler Froemming 10/28/10 Project 73: OSU Mini Malter

DESIGN SELECTED

We will begin to pursue the circular shaped, single-chambered malter.

This design will make mixing the barley during germination and kilning easier. Mixing the barley during those stages is a heavily weighted customer requirement.

The circular design is much simpler than the rectangular and also allows for more efficient airflow.

We believe that having a single-chamber malter is totally feasible to design and still satisfy all our customer requirements.

We will begin to concentrate on this design but other designs are not out of the question.

Tyler Froemming 10/28/10 Project 73: OSU Mini Malter

SCHEDULE AND BUDGET

OSU Mini Malter Gantt Chart

Task Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11

List CR's and get signatures                                                                  

Oral Progress Report 1                                                                  

Brainstorm Design Ideas                                                                  

Progress Status Report 1                                                                  

List ER's w/ Targets and Tolerances                                                                  

Oral Progress Report 2                                                                  

Preliminary Proposal                                                                  

Create Solid Model                                                                  

Construct BOM                                                                  

Progress Status Report 2                                                                  

Develop Manufacturing Plan                                                                  

Oral Progress Report 3                                                                  

Develop Testing Plan                                                                  

Final Proposal                                                                  

Contact Vendors and Order Parts                                                                  

Total Dollars Available 10000

Anticipated ExpensesMaterials 2500Machining 2000Electronic Controls 4000

Expenses to date 0

Balance 1500

Tyler Froemming 10/28/10 Project 73: OSU Mini Malter

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