Thermal Engineering Laboratory

Diversification of experiments: Diverse experiments spread across thermal science lab, heat transfer lab, heat engine lab, green energy lab and solar energy centre. Students can utilise these setups for their final year projects also.

  • Fluidised bed systems
  • Heat transfer
  • Dual fuel CI engine
  • Biomass gasification and testing
  • Shell and tube heat exchanger
  • Fuel cell test setup
  • Drag and lift measurement
  • Solar energy systems
  • Fluid machines
  • Flow visualization

    • New Equipments added

  • Hot Disk Thermal Constants Analyser (2017)
  • HSI Training System for Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology (2018)
  • Double Pass Air Heater System (2021)
  • Combustion Unit (2022)
  • Combustion and Flame Propagation Setup (2022)
  • Bubbling Fluidized Bed Gasifier (2023)
  • Computerised CRDI Engine (2023)
  • Solar Simulator(2023)

    • Specialized Equipments

  • i. Fluidised bed Combustor
  • ii. Engine test rig with exhaust gas recirculation
  • iii. Phase change material based thermal energy storage system
  • iv. Shell and tube heat exchanger
  • v. Drag and lift measurement
  • vi. Wind turbine experimental setup
  • vii. Biodiesel production and testing
  • viii. PC based heat pump refrigeration system
  • ix. Indoor solar thermal water heater setup
  • x. Stand-alone PV training system

    • Computational Laboratory

    Classwork includes various programming/coding exercises and CFD simulations using software like Ansys Fluent. Computational facilities:

  • Central CC: 25 work stations to conduct coding exercises and to use online platforms
  • CFD Lab: 15 Work stations

    • Dell Precision 3610 Work Station, No.5, purchased on, 18/07/2014 (Intel Xeon-ES-1620v2 Processor Quad core 8 GB RAM, 1 TB Hard disk)

    Dell Precision Tower 7810 Work Station, No. 10, purchased on 05/08/2015 (Intel Xeon E5 2620 v3 Processor 8 GB RAM, 1 TB Hard disk, 27” Monitor)

    Software:

    Earlier, the students had to use Ansys-Fluent software at CAD/CAM lab for CFD simulations. Recently, the following software were installed in the Computational Laboratory:

  • ANSYS Fluent (v 2019 R1) Academic License-25 nos. (26/03/2019)
  • ANSYS Fluent (v 2019 R1) Research License-5 nos. (26/03/2019)
  • COMSOL multi physics software with CFD and Heat transfer modules (17/03/2022)

    • Students can also utilise the facilities available at the Institute's Central Computer Centre. Additionally, they may install freely downloadable software for programming (e.g. C, C++), CAD modelling (AutoCAD student) etc. which may be required for their projects.