Laboratory Incharge:
Prof. V. P. Rajaput  
Email:  vprajaput.mech@srpec.org

Major Equipment:

• • Apparatus for measuring Thermal conductivity of Metal rod
• • Apparatus for Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Insulating Powder
• • Apparatus for measuring Heat Transfer through Composite wall
• • Guarded Hot Plate Apparatus for Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Liquid
• • Apparatus for Determining Critical Radius of Insulating Materials
• • Critical Heat Flux Apparatus
• • Apparatus for Prediction of Heat transfer by Natural(Free) Convection
• • Apparatus for Prediction of Heat Transfer by Forced Convection
• • Parallel Flow & Counter Flow Heat Exchanger Apparatus
• • Plate Type Heat Exchanger Apparatus
• • Apparatus for Verifying Stefan-Boltzman Constant
• • Apparatus for Prediction of a Emissivity of a Test Plate
• • Apparatus for analyzing heat transfer by Pin-Fin

Experiments to be Performed:

This lab is to introduce the basic principles of heat and mass transfer with emphasis on their analysis and applications to practical engineering problems and also it is used for performing the Heat Transfer experiments to verify some of the theoretical learning in our class by experiments.

• • To determine thermal conductivity of metal rod
• • To determine thermal conductivity of Insulating powder
• • Experiments on heat transfer through composite wall apparatus
• • To determine thermal conductivity of liquid guarded hot plate
• • To determine critical radius of insulating material
• • Experiment on critical heat flux apparatus
• • Experiment on heat transfer through Natural (free) convection. apparatus
• • Experiment on heat transfer through forced convection apparatus
• • Experiment on Parallel Flow & Counter Flow Heat Exchanger apparatus
• • Experiment on Plate Type Heat Exchanger Apparatus
• • To determine stifen - Boltzman constant
• • To determine Emissivity of a Test Plate
• • Experiments on Pin - Fin apparatus