About me¶
My journey in the engineering and technology world has started in 2014, in which i started studying about the basics of mechanical engineering in university. That is where i started getting interested in learning new things related to engineering. I began my journey by volunteering in science and engineering workshops/events such as STEM, which helped me gain more knowledge and build my connections with specialised people.
Then, i started going to conferences and participated in projects in order to learn more. Currently, im working with a group of 9 members called 200tech plus, in which we are in progress of developing an automated steam garment. Detailed information will be shown below.
Graduation Project - Bahrain Polytechnic¶
Project Title - Design Proposal for Controlling Heat Transfer in Domestic Water Pipelines
The research project focuses on investigating and proposing an alternative solution for the current piping systems of Electricity and Water Authority (EWA). EWA is known to be responsible for distributing domestic water to 90 % of Bahrain for various utilisation purposes. With high temperature being dominant in Bahrain during most of the months, the temperature of water transmitted is inconvenient for human use. Therefore, this aids in unnecessary water loss affecting the sustainability goals that Bahrain is trying to achieve. One of the major problems identified is that EWA uses metal piping systems in which metals are known for their high thermal conductivity, resulting in high heat transfer rate. The proposed solution consists of two factors. The first factor lies within the boundaries of EWA, i.e. modifying the existing piping system by using alternative materials which were tested by conducting a thermal analysis in solid works. The materials tested were Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE), High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), Chlorinated Polyvinyl Chloride (CPVC) and Cross-linked Polyethylene (PEX), in which CPVC was found to be the suitable one. The other factor was to design a cooling tower which aims at reducing the temperature of water before reaching the piping system. Hence, the piping system with the selected material will maintain the water temperature released from the cooling tower. The results obtained concluded that CPVC will reduce the heat transfer rate which is the main purpose of the project.
This projected was awarded as the best mechanical industry project in Bahrain Polytechnic for the academic year 2017/2018.
Here is a short video describing the engineering exhibition and my project. If you wish to skip to my project description directly, it starts at 1:30 seconds of the video.
Below are some images of the project exhibition day:
Project poster
Project supervisor Mr Gollapudi Narayana
Head of Engineering Department Dr Christina Georgantopoulou
Award announcement
Car project (Year 3) - Bahrain Polytechnic¶
This project was about learning all the basics and elements of a car. The first part of the project was research, which focused on the theoretical aspects of vehicles and the second part was to apply all the theoretical knowledge gained to design and manufacture a vehicle’s chassis. Below are some images to show the processes that were done.
200tech plus¶
This is a group of 9 members, having backgrounds in engineering, IT, web media and business, that are in process of developing an automated steam garmet. 200tech plus was started in 2016 and since then were are still working on our device. We have participated in many competitions in Bahrain and outside, such as Kuwait and Malaysia, and won plenty of awards in different competitions with our first prototype only. We are currently working on our second prototype which is 80% done. Below are images of one of the competitons participated with our first prototype.
Some members of the 200tech plus with our first prototype device (shown on the left)
Highest Audience Votes Award won for the same competition