Bachelor Assignment

The need for controlled environments keeps growing. A cleanroom, defined by modern industrial standards, is a room in which the air quality is controlled. Current cleanrooms use lift-sliding doors to enter and leave cleanroom chambers. A problem with the current mechanism is that a high frictional force is produced. This results in wear of the mechanism and a need for maintenance. A covering cap is placed above the mechanism, on which dust could form. This assignment aims to explore implementing magnetism in the current mechanism, to reduce areas on which dust could form, decrease defects or reduce maintenance. Smart uses of magnetism can already be found in existing products, such as the famous magnetic levitation train. Would it be possible to implement these techniques into an innovative cleanroom door?