Last week, AYVA’s Jason Peng visited the University of the Fraser Valley’s (UFV) Automation and Robotics Lab where he had the opportunity to see two of KUKA’s KR6 Robots in action.

The pair of KR6 robots await orders from a remote computer with a programmed script of their operation.

UFV’s robotics instructor Avner Bachar awakens one of the robots to showcase what his students have programmed. In a matter of seconds the robot boots up and begins motioning, the actuators can be heard working the 6-degrees of freedom, and the sound of pneumatic hisses activating the vacuum gripper that Avner and his team cleverly devised using a 3D printed adapter. The robot then begins its job of picking and placing cups on a bottling station where it puts an empty cup onto a conveyor, waits for the cup to be filled, empties it into a reservoir tank and stacks it.

Avner notes that graduates have gone on to work in industry, anywhere from brewing companies to PLC control for egg-sorting in local farms.

Who knew robots could have such a delicate touch.

Last week, Regis Rodriguez, the product specialist from Lyon, France was onsite to commission the new Mixed Adsorption Desorption: Gas & Liquid Adsorption, the latest addition to their state-of-the-art labs. Paige’s labs already boast a Spray Dryer and a Controlled Reverse Osmosis from this world-class industrial manufacturer.

AYVA has partnered with PIGNAT to equip Chemical Engineering as well as Environmental Engineering Labs at colleges and universities across Canada. Customers appreciate the quality and industrial components but what impresses them most is PIGNAT’s willingness to customize the products to best suit their needs. Educators can choose whether to be trained in France or to have an experienced chemical engineer from PIGNAT conduct on-site training.

Click here for an overview of PIGNAT’s training equipment.

Mixed Adsorption Desorption: Gas & Liquid Adsorption
Spray Dryer
Controlled Reverse Osmosis

We were fortunate to attend the Global Engineering Deans Conference in Niagara Falls earlier this month.

It was a great opportunity to hear about important topics in engineering education, research and outreach.

AYVA offers teaching equipment for refrigeration covering the fundamental theories associated with thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer – enabling students to understand HVAC environmental control in the real industrial and consumer world!

Environmental Control Teaching Equipment
The air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC and R) industry designs, builds, maintains and repairs essential indoor comfort and cooling systems including heating, ventilation and air conditioning. The expanding markets for refrigeration and air conditioning and changing technology,  has created a growing need for training.

Our partner in England, TecQuipment (TQ) offers refrigeration training solutions and experiments that allow students to comprehend the workings of cooling towers, refrigeration and air conditioning; utilizing psychrometric and P-h charts.

TecQuipment Air Conditioning Trainer – EC-1501

The unit features an air-cooled condenser unit connected to an evaporator located in an air duct. The air duct contains relative humidity and temperature sensors on both sides of the evaporator. A small fan provides air flow down the duct and can be manually adjusted.

The refrigeration circuit features high and low pressure gauges, a pressure switch, sight glass, filter dryer and TEV valve. The circuit also includes pressure transducers that connect to the instrumentation.

Four thermocouples placed around the refrigeration circuit allow observation of temperatures, these can be used for the calculation of potential super heating and sub-cooling.

Our partner in France, ERIDÈS offers a unique solution with transparent walls which lets student watch the visible condensation and evaporation allowing for the understanding of the cycle processes.

ERIDÈS Refrigeration Cycle Demonstration Unit – MCFC10

This refrigeration cycle training unit allows for measurement of flow rate, pressure, temperature and more.