Heat Transfer Laboratory

About

Dear Visitor, welcome to Heat Transfer laboratory. It is an undergraduate teaching laboratory. The lab is equipped with seven experimental setups to demonstrate the fundamental heat transfer problems and their application. The experimental setups in this laboratory are a part of the curriculum for undergraduate students undertaking the course “MIN-305 (Heat and Mass Transfer)” and “MIN-209 (Thermal Engineering)”.

Courses Run in the Lab: MIN-209, MIN-305

Faculty In-charge

Lab/Staff-in Charge

Prof. Arup Kr Das

Associate professor

arup.das@me.iitr.ac.in

Room No:135, East Block

01332-284802

Prof. Alankrita Singh

Assistant Professor

alankrita@me.iitr.ac.in

Room No:225, East Block

01332-285151

Satyaveer Singh

Sr. Attendant

satyaveeriitr@gmail.com

Heat Transfer Lab

01332-286611

Facilities / List of Equipment

1. Thermal conductivity of metal bar setup

This setup is designed to study the conduction heat transfers in metal rod and to determine its thermal conductivity.

It consists of

1. Electric panel with Dimmerstat, Voltmeter and Ammeter (1 Phase, 220V AC, 2 Amps)
2. Testing rod
3. Heater
4. Thermocouples
5. Water supply
6. Drain

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2. Thermal conductivity of insulating powder setup

This setup is designed to study the conduction heat transfer through insulating powder and to determine the thermal conductivity of Insulating Powder.

It consists of

1. Electric panel with Dimmerstat, Voltmeter and Ammeter (1 Phase, 220V AC, 2 Amps)
2. Two thin walled concentric copper sphere
3. Heater
4. Insulating powder (ASBESTOS)
5. Thermocouples
6. Supporting rod

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3. FREE and FORCED convection heat transfer setup

This set is designed to demonstrate the relationship between power input and surface temperature in FREE convection and FORCED convection using steady state method.

It consists of

1. Electric console
2. Duct
3. Suction fan
4. Heated plate
5. Thermocouples
6. Anemometer
7. Air throttle

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4. Co-current flow and counter-current flow heat exchanger

This setup is designed to demonstrate the differences between counter-current flow (flows in opposing directions), co-current flows (flows in the same direction), and the effect on heat transferred, temperature efficiencies and temperature profiles through a concentric tube heat exchanger.

It consists of

1. Concentric tubes
2. Heater switch
3. Rotameter
4. Thermocouples

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5. Forced flow cooling tower setup

This setup is designed to demonstrate the energy balance and mass balance of cooling tower with forced flow.

It consists of

1. Cooling tower TTEC/B
2. SCADA software

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6. Thermal conductivity of liquid setup

This setup is designed to study the heat transfer through liquid and to determine the thermal conductivity of a liquid.

It consists of

1. Electric panel with Dimmerstat, Voltmeter and Ammeter (1 Phase, 220V AC, 2 Amps)
2. Sample liquid (Glycerol)
3. Electric heater
4. Hot plate (copper)
5. Cold plate (Aluminum)
6. Thermocouples
7. Water supply

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7. Liquid mass transfer and diffusion unit

This setup is to familiarize with the notions of mass transfer theory, specially the diffusion in liquid systems, obtaining experimental data and results, which are very useful for an ideal practice understanding of the mass transfer process.

It consists of

1. Edibon liquid mass transfer & diffusion unit QDTL
2. Electronic console
2. SCADA software

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