ME3682 Heat Transfer Laboratory Syllabus:
ME3682 Heat Transfer Laboratory Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1 To gain experimental knowledge of Predicting the thermal conductivity of solids and liquids.
2 To gain experimental knowledge of Estimating the heat transfer coefficient values of various fluids.
3 To gain experimental knowledge of Testing the performance of tubes in tube heat exchangers
LIST OF EXPERIMENTS:
1. Thermal conductivity measurement of pipe insulation using lagged pipe apparatus.
2. Determination of thermal conductivity of a composite wall, insulating powder, oils, and water.
3. Determination of heat transfer coefficient of air under natural convection and forced convection.
4. Heat transfer from pin-fin under natural and forced convection.
5. Determination of heat flux under pool boiling and flow boiling in various regimes.
6. Determination of heat transfer coefficient in film-wise and drop-wise condensation.
7. Determination of friction factor, heat transfer coefficient of cold/hot fluid and effectiveness of a tube-in-tube
heat exchanger.
8. Determination of Stefan – Boltzmann constant.
9. Determination of emissivity of a grey surface.
10. Calibration of thermocouples / RTDs at standard reference temperatures.
TOTAL : 60 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course the students would be able to
1. Conduct experiment on Predict the thermal conductivity of solids and liquids
2. Conduct experiment on Estimate the heat transfer coefficient values of various fluids.
3. Conduct experiment on Test the performance of tubes in tube heat exchangers
