ME5611: Heat Transfer and Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Laboratory Syllabus for MECH 6th Sem 2019 Regulation Anna University

Heat Transfer and Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Laboratory detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering (MECH) for 2019 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MECH students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Mechanical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MECH 6th Sem 2019 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of heat transfer and refrigeration and air-conditioning laboratory is as follows.

Course Objective:

The main learning objective of this course is to provide hands on training to the students in:

1. Predicting the thermal conductivity of solids and liquids.
2. Estimating the heat transfer coefficient values of various fluids.
3. Analyzing the working of cooling tower.
4. Testing the performance of tubes in tube heat exchangers.
5. Testing the performance of the refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.

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.
11. Determination of Coefficient of Performance of a vapour compression refrigeration system and Air-Conditioning system.
12. Determination of effectiveness of a cooling tower.

List of Equipments:

1. Lagged pipe apparatus.
2. Composite wall, insulating powder apparatus and liquid thermal conductivity measuring apparatus.
3. Natural convection and forced convection test setup.
4. Pin-fin under natural and forced convection test setup.
5. Pool boiling and flow boiling apparatus.
6. Film-wise and drop-wise condensation apparatus.
7. Tube-in-tube heat exchanger test setup.
8. Stefan – Boltzmann constant apparatus.
9. Emissivity measuring apparatus.
10. Calibration of thermocouples / RTDs test setup.
11. Vapour compression refrigeration system and Air-Conditioning system test setup
12. Cooling tower test setup.

Course Outcome:

Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:

1. Predict the thermal conductivity of solids and liquids.
2. Estimate the heat transfer coefficient values of various fluids.
3. Analyze the working of cooling tower.
4. Test the performance of tubes in tube heat exchangers.
5. Test the performance of the refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.

For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Mechanical Engineering, 2019 regulation curriculum do visit MECH 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2019 regulation.

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