Within the past two months, Cole Bender, Sepanta Mohammad, Minghao Ling, and I designed a Crude Oil Pump for our Advanced CAD Course (AUTOTECH 2AC3) at McMaster University, taught by Lucian Balan, Ph.D., LEL.

As a group, all parts were modelled, designed, and dimensioned from scratch with complex geometry using SOLIDWORKS. Each component was fitted together in an assembly with kinematic constraints with the use of the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox Library under ANSI Metric Standards. Afterwards, animations and motion study simulations were created with a set RPM. 

In this project, the Oil Pump was operational over the required range and fulfilled each of the assigned specifications. It used a counterweight mechanism in order to extract oil from a well through a reciprocal motion. The rotation of the input shaft, rotates the pinion within a gearbox that incorporates a two-stage gear reduction with two sets of meshed gears with calculated ratios, moving the counterweight resulting in the reciprocal vertical motion of the pump-shaft.

I look forward to my next project within this course, creating a V6 Engine using CATIA and proud to announce that I have been selected to participate in the IDEEA 2021 International Collaborative Project, creating a mobility device.

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