Thermodynamics: heat transfer Lab Equipment
Application of thermodynamics
Water chiller
The water chiller can be used to operate the heat exchangers under suitable experimental conditions
Tubular heat exchange
Plate heat exchange
Shell and tube heat exchanger
Stirred tank with double jacket and coil
Heat transfer in the tubular heat exchanger
Heat transfer in pipe flows and determination of heat flux; parallel flow and counterflow operation
Water chiller
The water chiller can be used to operate the heat exchangers under suitable experimental conditions
Wet cooling tower
Principle of operation and characteristic variables of a wet cooling tower with forced ventilation
Fundamentals
Expansion of ideal gases
Determination of the adiabatic exponent according to Clément-Desormes
Fundamentals of humidity measurement
Climatic chamber with adjustable humidity; comparison of four measuring methods
Fundamentals of temperature measurement
Experimental introduction to temperature measurement technology: methods, areas of application, characteristics
Fundamentals of pressure measurement
Measurement of positive and negative pressure with different measuring devices
Vapour pressure of water – Marcet boiler
Pressure and temperature measurement in a steam boiler
Boiling process
Visualisation of different forms of evaporation in a transparent pressure vessel
Heat transfer
Heat conduction in fluids
Determination of the coefficient of thermal conductivity for gaseous and liquid fluids
Heat conduction and convection
Investigation of heat conduction and convection using the example of a cooling fin
Free and forced convection
Calculation of convective heat transfer at different geometries: flat plate, cylinder, tube bundle
Steady-state and non-steadystate heat conduction
Linear heat conduction in metals; non-steady state temperature distribution
Thermal conductivity of building materials
Investigation of the insulation properties of typical materials from the building materials sector
Convection and radiation
Heat transport between heating element and vessel wall by convection and radiation