Protein Denaturation via Function Generator

Design And Development:

Project Description:

• This Project is a collaboration with Chemical Engineering programme of the SEIT (School of Engineering and Information Technology)
• The main objective is to build a system that will supply a certain value of frequency with small current and voltage to a stainless steel bar. The stainless steel bar will be used to dip into milk to test the protein denaturation.
• The Solution is to connect a function Generator to the stainless steel bar and the temperature of the system is tested to make sure the function generator will not supply any heat into the milk.

Milestone:

1. Preliminary Design/Research – This step involves testing of the Function Generator in a controlled environment, the preliminary build of experiment is tested to make sure the process environment is on the correct track.
2. Design and Testing – This stage covers the design of the basic system. A magnetic stirrer with hot plate is tested to make sure the frequency of the stainless steel bar is not affected by magnetic field that is emitted from the magnetic stirrer with hot plate.
3. Development – Several value of frequency is supplied to the stainless steel bar, and magnetic stirrer with hot plate will stir and supply heat to the milk.

Project led by Z.W.SIEW and S.E.TAN, completed on March 2011