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

  1. Determination of LMTD and effectiveness of parallel flow, Counter flow heat exchangers
  2. Performance studies on a shell and tube heat exchanger
  3. Determination of heat transfer coefficients in free convection
  4. Determination of heat transfer coefficients in forced convection
  5. Determination of thermal conductivity of solids (composite wall/metal rod)
  6. Determination of emissivity of a specimen
  7. Study and performance test on refrigeration (Refrigeration Test rig)
  8. Performance study on heat pipe
  9. Calibration of Thermocouples
  10. Calibration of Pressure gauge
  11. Determination of Stefan Boltzman constant
  12. Test on Unsteady state heat transfer