Connor Fuller, Alexander Daniel, Namrata Gupta, Johnsen Tan, Theo Barasa
The Cool Runnings portable ice bath is to be used conveniently in any household bathroom as a personal recovery tool for athletes. Ice baths as a recovery method are a proven type of therapy used by elite athletes worldwide. Cold therapy reduces swelling, inflammation and tissue breakdown helping to speed up the recovery time of an athlete. The portable ice bath cools tap water to the required 10° C for an ice bath in a short period of time. The portable ice bath uses a vapour compression cycle as its cooling system. The system design is a shell and tube heat exchanger that will be integrated with the compression vapour cycle. The tap water is pumped from the bathtub at a higher temperature, passed through the cooling coils and the temperature is reduced to the required level.