HEAT TRANSFER IN NATURAL CONVECTION.

RANGE OF EXPERIMENTS TO BE CARRIED OUT :

  1. To study the temperature distribution along the length of a vertical pipe In natural convection.
  2. To calculate Gr, Pr & Nu number in natural convection.
  3. To determine the surface heat transfer coefficient for a vertical tube losing heat by natural convection.
  4. The experiments can be conducted at various values of input & calculation can be made accordingly.

EXPERIMENTAL SETUP :

  1. Heater Assembly.
  2. Brass Vertical cylinder
  3. Cylinder enclosure with stand.
  4. Cylinder holding assembly.
  5. Set of thermocouples.

CONTROL PANEL :

  1. 12 Channel Digital Temperature Indicator
  2. Dimmerstat : 0 – 2 A.
  3. Main’s On/Off Switch.
  4. Voltmeter :0 – 250 V.
  5. Ammeter :0 – 3 A.

SPACE REQUIRED :

1.5 m.(L)x 1.0 m(W) table top.

SERVICE REQUIRED :

230 v Ac Supply 50 Hz

WEIGHT : @ 55 Kg