Design Process

To design this robot, our team experimented with the timing of the rocket's burn, delaying ignition, separation of different stages, and fins. Unfortunately, every so often the application RockSim would freeze resulting in the group having to restart the timing of every part of the rocket. This made it impossible to have an interactive design strategy, so by the end of the week we had an unfinished design. Still, we learned a lot from this week’s lessons and working on the simulation helped us understand the connection between different parts of a rocket.

Inspired by the pictures in the carbon capture device tab, we implemented a filter to our carbon dioxide capture device. We added a segment into the build to add the battery. The carbon dioxide enters the device and then gets chemically trapped inside of it. There are two other segments that include the anode and the electrolyte. The carbon dioxide emissions get converted to "a higher value C2 product" while also generating electrical energy.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/08/scientists-propose-novel-carbon-capture-electrochemical-cell

For this week, our research paper would influence our design as we would use what we learned about rocket design and carbon capture and implement it into our designs. We spilt up the sections between everyone and decided to cover an Introduction, Rocket Principles, Rocket Design, Carbon Capturing, Synthetic Hydrocarbon Fuels, and a Conclusion. Each part described the importance of the listed materials and how they work to create an efficient rocket design for carbon capturing.