JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre-requisite

Thermodynamics

Course Objectives

To enable the student to apply conduction, convection and radiation heat

transfer concepts to practical applications

Outcome: At the end of the lab sessions, the student will be able to

• Perform steady state conduction experiments to estimate thermal conductivity of different materials
• Perform transient heat conduction experiment
• Estimate heat transfer coefficients in forced convection, free convection , condensation and correlate with theoretical values
• Obtain variation of temperature along the length of the pin fin under forced and free convection
• Perform radiation experiments: Determine surface emissivity of a test plate and Stefan- Boltzmann’s constant and compare with theoretical value Minimum twelve experiments from the following:
• 1. Composite Slab Apparatus – Overall heat transfer co-efficient.
• 2. Heat transfer through lagged pipe.
• 3. Heat Transfer through a Concentric Sphere
• 4. Thermal Conductivity of given metal rod.
• 5. Heat transfer in pin-fin
• 6. Experiment on Transient Heat Conduction
• 7. Heat transfer in forced convection apparatus.
• 8. Heat transfer in natural convection
• 9. Parallel and counter flow heat exchanger.
• 10. Emissivity apparatus.
• 11. Stefan Boltzman Apparatus.
• 12. Critical Heat flux apparatus.
• 13. Study of heat pipe and its demonstration.
• 14. Film and Drop wise condensation apparatus R16 B.TECH AUTOMOBILE ENGG.