THERMAL PROCESS LABORATORY
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| This laboratory is equipped to facilitate undergraduate level teaching as well as graduate level research work. The laboratory has a range of standard instruments for teaching and research in the area of heat and mass transfer. Other facilities available include: calibration setup for temperature and pressure measurements with computerized data acquisition system, facility for performance testing of cooling coils and camera for image capture and analyzes. Various simulation software and programming compilers can be found in this laboratory. | |
The lab hosts the following undergraduate level teaching experiments: * Determination and comparison of forced convection heat transfer coefficients * Determination of the calorific value of fuel using the 'Oxygen Bomb Calorimetry' * Determination of specific heat capacity ratio of an ideal gas. |
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 The Guarded Hot Box |
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The following research projects are located in the laboratory: * Micro combustion and micro thermo photovoltaic power generation. * Micro propulsion and micro thrusters * Study on heat generation during bone drilling * Vapour absorption refrigeration system to study and analyze the heat and mass transfer phenomena taking place in the absorber. * Ice slurry energy storage system for chiller application for economical operation of chillers * Various desalination projects including reverse osmosis, multi-effect and vapour compression systems * Various drying projects including hybrid drying, spouted bed drying, drying under inert environment * Thermal characteristics of phase change materials and liquid crystal thermography * Development of microencapsulated phase change material for energy storage * Thermal Performance Evaluation of Building Envelopes - Guarded Hot Box Method (GHB) |
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