🔹 Thermal Engineering Lab
The Thermal Engineering Lab equips students and professionals with tools to explore heat transfer, refrigeration, and steam generation. It supports hands-on learning and experimentation essential for HVAC, power, automotive, and manufacturing industries.
🔸 Heat Exchangers
Type: Parallel Flow, Counter Flow, Shell & Tube
Purpose: Study heat transfer between two fluids without mixing.
- Digital temperature and flow sensors
- Multiple exchanger configurations
- Transparent casing for flow observation
- Real-time NTU & LMTD analysis
Applications: Automotive radiators, chemical plants, HVAC systems
🔸 Refrigeration Test Rigs
Type: Vapour Compression Cycle Bench
Purpose: Analyze refrigeration and cooling system performance.
- Real-time COP calculation
- Components: compressor, condenser, expansion valve, evaporator
- Graphical representation of P-h and T-s diagrams
- Load and refrigerant control for dynamic testing
Applications: HVAC systems, cold storage, pharmaceutical cooling
🔸 Steam Generators
Type: Mini Boiler & Steam Production Unit
Purpose: Demonstrate steam generation and boiler thermodynamics.
- Safety valves, pressure gauges, and thermocouples
- Steam output regulation and condensate analysis
- Internal combustion monitoring through transparent casing
- Efficiency measurement and Rankine cycle study
Applications: Power plants, process heating, industrial steam systems
🔹 Fluid Mechanics Lab
Our Fluid Mechanics Lab provides a hands-on platform to explore the behavior of fluids under various flow conditions. It focuses on the application of core fluid dynamics principles through real-world test setups including Venturimeter, Orifice Meter, and Bernoulli’s apparatus.
🔸 Venturimeter
Purpose: Measure flow rate through a pipe using pressure differential.
- Transparent Venturimeter tube with calibrated scale
- Digital/Analog manometer for pressure head difference
- Flow regulation with control valve
- Verification of Bernoulli’s equation through practical observations
Applications: Fluid transport, pipelines, HVAC, irrigation systems
🔸 Orifice Meter Setup
Purpose: Determine discharge and flow rate using an orifice plate.
- Stainless steel orifice plate with pressure tappings
- U-tube or differential manometer for head loss analysis
- Calibration chart for theoretical vs actual discharge
- Energy loss and velocity coefficient study
Applications: Industrial flow measurement, water treatment, oil & gas pipelines
🔸 Bernoulli’s Apparatus
Purpose: Validate Bernoulli’s theorem by observing fluid flow parameters.
- Multi-tube manometer connected along a tapered duct
- Transparent flow section to observe velocity/pressure variation
- Water supply tank with overflow and control valves
- Study of energy conversion between pressure head, kinetic head, and potential head
Applications: Fluid theory validation, teaching aid, energy conservation systems
🔹 Dynamics & Strength Lab
The Dynamics & Strength Lab enables students to explore mechanical motion, structural integrity, and material behavior under various loads. With high-precision instruments like gyroscopes, UTM, and balancing machines, the lab bridges the gap between mechanical theory and practical performance analysis.
🔸 Gyroscopes & Cam Analysis Setup
Purpose: Understand precession, nutation, and dynamic balancing in rotating bodies.
- Motorized gyroscope with speed & torque control
- Study of gyroscopic couple and angular momentum
- Cam-follower test rig with dial indicators
- Observation of follower motion and jerk analysis
Applications: Automotive stability, aircraft navigation, valve timing systems
🔸 Universal Testing Machine (UTM), Impact & Hardness Testers
Purpose: Perform tensile, compressive, flexural, impact, and hardness tests on materials.
- UTM with computer interface and real-time graph plotting
- Charpy & Izod impact testers with energy scale
- Brinell, Rockwell, and Vickers hardness testers
- Stress-strain, Young’s modulus, and fracture point studies
Applications: Material certification, product development, quality control
🔸 Balancing Machines
Purpose: Analyze and correct unbalanced rotating systems in machines.
- Dynamic and static balancing test benches
- Speed-variable motor with vibration sensors
- Data acquisition for balancing weights & phase angle
- Rotor balancing with phase correction experiments
Applications: Turbines, engines, rotors, flywheels, CNC systems