Yashesh Dasari is a MASc student in the department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering. During a recent industry collaboration with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) for his final design project, Dasari was tasked to investigate the automotive coating process at TMMC's paint booth and conceptualize design refinements to improve the filtration efficiency.
Dasari used Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools to estimate the air flow patterns and applied his advanced design methods knowledge to conceptualize and propose an easy-to-implement, cost-effective design solution. The future cost benefit of this design project is estimated to be upwards of $500K per year in the form of Operation and Maintenance cost of the filtration unit.