Prosthetic Socket Cooling System - CORE CORE Search Search Services Access to raw data API Dataset FastSync Content discovery Recommender Discovery Managing content Repository dashboard Support FAQs About About CORE Blog Contact us Prosthetic Socket Cooling System By Benjamin K Kraw, Kathy Ha, Derek Piastrelli and Cuong Lai Get PDF (106 KB) Abstract A team of four senior-level undergraduate students in the Interdisciplinary Senior Project Design course in the Engineering Department of California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo have worked to develop a prosthetic socket cooling system, namely for veteran Taylor Morris and exclusively for a transfemoral prosthetic socket, under the Quality of Life+ Laboratory. This cooling system will utilize the thermoelectric effect known as the Peltier effect to transmit heat generated from the residual limb to the surrounding environment by means of forced convection over small aluminum heat sinks. Two measurement devices have also been developed to, one, measure the heat generated by the muscles of the femoral area by a thermocouple temperature sensor network and, two, measure the efficiency of the proposed socket cooling system by applying a pseudo heat source and ensuring that the Peltier modules are removing the excess heat generated to hold and regulate the residual limb skin temperature Topics: Prosthetic Socket Cooling System, Transfemoral, Peltier Module, Thermoelectric, Conduction, Convection, Biomechanical Engineering, Biomechanics, Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Energy Systems, Mechanical Engineering Publisher: DigitalCommons@CalPoly Year: 2016 OAI identifier: oai:digitalcommons.calpoly.edu:mesp-1359 Provided by: DigitalCommons@CalPoly Downloaded from https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1359&context=mesp To submit an update or takedown request for this paper, please submit an Update/Correction/Removal Request. Suggested articles Useful links Blog Services About CORE Contact us Cookies Privacy notice Writing about CORE? Discover our research outputs and cite our work. CORE is a not-for-profit service delivered by the Open University and Jisc.
