Heat Transfer Lab

Faculty in Charge : Prof. Santhosh Kumar S, Associate Professor, 9447175859
Instructor in Charge : Mr. Sreekumar T P, Instructor Gr II, 9495830070
Staff in Charge : Mr. Ramesh K, Trade Instructor Gr II, 9746061227
Mr. Astin Sabu Varghese, Tradesman (Adhoc), 9207804454
Equipment/Facilities
- Composite wall apparatus
- Thermal conductivity of Liquids apparatus (Demonstration)
- Forced convection apparatus
- Free convection apparatus
- Emissivity apparatus
- Pin fin apparatus (Demonstration)
- Parallel flow and counter flow heat exchanges
- Shell and tube heat exchangers
- Dropwise and film wise apparatus (Demonstration)
- Stefan Bolzman apparatus
- Refrigeration test ring
- Heat pipe apparatus
- Unsteady Apparatus
- Critical heat flux apparatus
List of Experiments
- Determination of LMTD and effectiveness of parallel flow, Counter flow heat exchangers
- Performance studies on a shell and tube heat exchanger
- Determination of heat transfer coefficients in free convection
- Determination of heat transfer coefficients in forced convection
- Determination of thermal conductivity of solids (composite wall/metal rod)
- Determination of emissivity of a specimen
- Study and performance test on refrigeration (Refrigeration Test rig)
- Performance study on heat pipe
- Calibration of Thermocouples
- Calibration of Pressure gauge
- Determination of Stefan Boltzman constant
- Test on Unsteady state heat transfer