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This document outlines the objectives, outcomes, experiments, and references for a Heat Transfer Laboratory course. The course aims to help students understand different forms of heat transfer, calculate heat transfer coefficients, and apply theoretical knowledge in experiments. Students will conduct 14 experiments over 14 weeks to determine thermal properties through different heat transfer methods like conduction, convection, radiation, and phase change. The course will assess students' abilities to analyze and solve heat transfer problems experientially and theoretically.

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HT Lab Syllabus

This document outlines the objectives, outcomes, experiments, and references for a Heat Transfer Laboratory course. The course aims to help students understand different forms of heat transfer, calculate heat transfer coefficients, and apply theoretical knowledge in experiments. Students will conduct 14 experiments over 14 weeks to determine thermal properties through different heat transfer methods like conduction, convection, radiation, and phase change. The course will assess students' abilities to analyze and solve heat transfer problems experientially and theoretically.

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HEAT TRANSFER LABORATORY

VI Semester: ME

Course Code Category Hours / Week Credits Maximum Marks


L T P C CIA SEE Total
AME112 Core
- - 3 2 30 70 100
Contact Classes: Nil Tutorial Classes: Nil Practical Classes: 48 Total Classes: 48

OBJECTIVES:
The course should enable the students to:
I. Understand the various forms of heat transfer and their applications in real life problems.
II. Analyze different methods to calculate the heat transfer coefficient in various heat transfer
problems.
III. Analyze the theoretical knowledge and apply it in conducting experiments in the forms of heat
transfer.

COURSE OUTCOMES (COs):


CO 1. Perform steady state conduction experiments to estimate thermal conductivity of different materials for
plane, cylindrical and spherical geometries
CO 2. Perform the transient heat conduction experiment and obtain variation of temperature along the length of
the pin fin.
CO 3. Estimate heat transfer coefficients in forced convection, free convection and determine effectiveness of heat
exchangers
CO 4. Perform radiation experiments:determine surface emissivity of a test plane and stefan-Boltzmann's constant
and compare with theritical values
CO 5. Estimate heat transfer coefficients in condensation, boiling and effectiveness of heat pipe

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs):


The students should enable to:
1. Determine the overall heat transfer coefficient for a composite slab
2. Determine the thermal conductivity of a lagged pipe apparatus
3. Determine the thermal conductivity of a concentric sphere apparatus
4. Determine the thermal conductivity of a metal rod apparatus
5. Determine the effectiveness and the efficiency of fins in pin fin apparatus
6. Determine the thermal conductivity in transient mode
7. Determine the convective heat transfer coefficient in forced convection
8. Determine the convective heat transfer coefficient in natural convection
9. Determine the effectiveness of parallel and counter flow heat exchanger in both theoretical and experimental
methods
10. Determine the emissivity of a grey and black body in the emissivity apparatus
11. Determine the Stefan Boltzmann constant and compare the value in the Stefan Boltzmann apparatus
12. Evaluate the critical heat flux value by studying different zones of boiling
13. Demonstrate the effectiveness of a heat pipe in the cooling of complex systems
14. Determine the condensation temperature in the film wise and drop wise condensation methods.
LIST OF EXPERIMENTS
WEEK 1 COMPOSITE SLAB APPRATUS – OVERALL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT
Determination of the overall heat transfer coefficient for a composite slab

WEEK 2 HEAT TRANSFER THROUGH LAGGED PIPE


Determination of the thermal conductivity of a lagged pipe
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WEEK 3 HEAT TRANSFER THROUGH CONENCTRIC SPHERE
Determination of thermal conductivity of given concentric sphere

WEEK 4 THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF GIVEN METAL ROD


Determination of thermal conductivity of the given metal rod

WEEK 5 HEAT TRANSFER IN PIN FIN APPARATUS


Determination of the effectiveness and efficiency of pin fin

WEEK 6 EXPERIMENT ON TRANSIENT HEAT CONDUCTION


Determination of thermal conductivity in transient mode.

WEEK 7 HEAT TRANSFER IN FORCED CONVECTION APPRATUS


Determination of convective heat transfer coefficient in forced convection

WEEK 8 HEAT TRANSFER IN NATURAL CONVECTION APPRATUS


Determination of convective heat transfer coefficient in natural convection

WEEK 9 PARALLEL AND COUNTER FLOW HEAT EXCHANGERS


Determination of effectiveness of parallel and counter flow heat exchangers by experimental and theoretical
methods
WEEK 10 EMISSIVITY APPARATUS
Determination of emissivity of grey and black body

WEEK 11 STEFAN BOLTZMANN APPARATUS


Determination of Stefan Boltzmann constant and compare its value.

WEEK 12 CRITICAL HEAT FLUX APPARATUS


Evaluate the critical heat flux value by studying different zones of boiling

WEEK 13 STUDY OF HEAT PIPE


Study the effectiveness of a heat pipe in cooling complex electromechanical systems

WEEK 14 FILM AND DROPWISE CONDENSATION APPARATUS


Determination of different methods of condensation

Text Books:
1. Yunus A. Cengel, “Heat Transfer a Practical Approach”, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 4th Edition, 2012.
2. R. C. Sachdeva, “Fundamentals of Engineering, Heat and Mass Transfer”, New Age publication, 3rd Edition,
2012.
Web References:
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Transfer
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat and Mass Transfer

Prepared by:
Dr. K. Ch Apparao, Associate Professor
HOD, ME
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