Rocketry Lab (Offline Sim + Tooling)
ActiveA browser-based rocket flight sim designed to run offline after first load. Focus: reliable numerics, realistic drag, and clear data output.
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LMO / Personal Projects
Personal Projects
A running log of builds, prototypes, and experiments. This page is intentionally practical: what it is, why it matters, and where it’s headed.
Active / In Development
6×6 Truck Conversion (Walking-beam / drivetrain ideas)
R&DExploring 6×6 layouts, load paths, and suspension strategies that survive real use. Focus: relability through ruggedness and simplicity .
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Electric-field / DEP Pump Concepts
R&DInvestigating whether strong electric fields (dielectrophoresis) can produce useful fluid motion with minimal moving parts — with realistic constraints and safety-first testing.
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High-Purity Oil Separation via Electrolysis
R&DInvestigating whether electrolysis can be used to improve the separation of oil, water, and gas in production fluids, leading to higher purity oil output and eliminating the need for a reinjection well.
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How I Document Work
- Clear assumptions: what’s measured vs what’s estimated.
- Field constraints: tools, time, cost, and failure modes matter.
- Iteration over polish: publish progress, then improve it.
6×6 Conversion
Placeholder section. We can flesh this out into a full write-up, images, equations, and links as you add content.
DEP / Electric-field Pump Concepts
Placeholder section. We can flesh this out into a full write-up, images, equations, and links as you add content.
High-Purity Oil Separation via Electrolysis
This project explores whether electrolysis can be introduced into the oil and gas separation process to improve phase separation between oil, water, and gas in production fluids. The core objective is to increase oil purity at the separator while manual handling requirements as the tank.
Conventional separation relies heavily on gravity, residence time, chemical treatment, and mechanical internals. While effective, these systems often struggle with emulsions, fine water carryover, and variable fluid compositions. Electrolysis introduces an additional physical mechanism that may influence phase behavior, coalescence, and charge distribution within the fluid.
The working hypothesis is that the introduction of a simple electrochemical process could assist in breaking stable emulsions or accelerating separation without relying solely on chemical additives. If viable, this approach could enable cleaner oil output earlier in the process and reduce or eliminate the need for dedicated reinjection wells in certain operating scenarios.
Current work is focused on getting my model to operate as intended.
If the concept proves impractical, the goal is still the same: understand why. Negative results are considered useful data and will be treated as such.