The document lists 39 potential engineering project topics related to heat and mass transfer for students to analyze. The topics involve analyzing heat transfer in devices like heat sinks, water heaters, heat exchangers, fins, and car radiators. Students would verify designs, compare experimental and theoretical results, and analyze factors like effectiveness, heat transfer coefficients, and thermal conductivity. The projects aim to advance students' understanding of heat transfer principles and analyze real-world applications.
The document lists 39 potential engineering project topics related to heat and mass transfer for students to analyze. The topics involve analyzing heat transfer in devices like heat sinks, water heaters, heat exchangers, fins, and car radiators. Students would verify designs, compare experimental and theoretical results, and analyze factors like effectiveness, heat transfer coefficients, and thermal conductivity. The projects aim to advance students' understanding of heat transfer principles and analyze real-world applications.
The document lists 39 potential engineering project topics related to heat and mass transfer for students to analyze. The topics involve analyzing heat transfer in devices like heat sinks, water heaters, heat exchangers, fins, and car radiators. Students would verify designs, compare experimental and theoretical results, and analyze factors like effectiveness, heat transfer coefficients, and thermal conductivity. The projects aim to advance students' understanding of heat transfer principles and analyze real-world applications.
The document lists 39 potential engineering project topics related to heat and mass transfer for students to analyze. The topics involve analyzing heat transfer in devices like heat sinks, water heaters, heat exchangers, fins, and car radiators. Students would verify designs, compare experimental and theoretical results, and analyze factors like effectiveness, heat transfer coefficients, and thermal conductivity. The projects aim to advance students' understanding of heat transfer principles and analyze real-world applications.
Heat and Mass Transfer (V-Semester, Batch-2017) Project Project Title No. 1. Thermal Analysis of Heat Sink of a Micro-Processor in any available desktop computer. Analyze the fins with a fan on a normal load. Compare the heat transfer with heat generation by processor. 2. Energy audit of Water Geyser. Compare the results of conventional geyser with gas and electric for a particular temperature and mass of water. Consider all type of losses. Compare theoretical and experimental results. 3. Thermal Analysis of Heat Sink of a Micro-Processor in any available Laptop. Analyze the fins with a fan on a normal load. Compare the heat transfer with heat generation by processor. 4. Discuss the design of Instant water geyser running on gas. Verify the design in terms of heat transfer. Do cost analysis and compare with conventional gas geyser. 5. Verify the design of fins on a Single Phase Electric Induction motor of a centrifugal water pump in your house. Also check the effectiveness of the fins. 6. Verify the design of fins on air cool motor bike engine. Also check the effectiveness of the fins. Compare these motor bike fins with rectangular and circular fins. 7. Compare the efficiency of fins (Circular and Rectangular) in your heat transfer lab under forced convection. Also check the effectiveness of the fins. 8. Verify the design of standard household hot-pot. Compare theoretical & experimental results of rate of heat transfer and time in hot-pot. 9. Verify the design of double pipe heat exchanger in your heat transfer lab. Compare your results with different mass flow rate and inlet and outlet temperatures. 10. Verify the design of Spiral tube heat exchanger in your heat transfer lab. Compare your results with different mass flow rate and inlet and outlet temperatures. 11. Verify the design of double pipe with fins heat exchanger in your heat transfer lab. Compare your results with different mass flow rate and inlet and outlet temperatures. 12. Verify the design of plate heat exchanger in your heat transfer lab. Compare your results with different mass flow rate and inlet and outlet temperatures. 13. Verify radial temperature profile within a circular solid (Aluminum and Copper) in your heat transfer lab. Compare with theoretical results. 14. Verify linear temperature profile within a solid (Aluminum and Copper) in your heat transfer lab. Compare with theoretical results. 15. Verify the design of fins (Circular and rectangular) available in your Heat Transfer lab under forced convection. Compare length with optimize theoretical length for maximum heat transfer. 16. Study & Analysis of Cooling Tower for a power plant in your Thermodynamics lab. Verify its design for a particular load. 17. Verify the design of car radiator of 800 cc car. Design analysis should be based on real time values of mass flowrate and temperatures. Calculate effectiveness of Car radiator also. 18. Verify the design of car radiator of 1500 cc car. Design analysis should be based on real time values of mass flowrate and temperatures. Calculate effectiveness of Car radiator also. 19. Discuss the insulation used in domestic water geyser. Verify the thickness of insulation used in geyser is optimized for our weather condition. Compare your experimental results with theoretical results. 20. Verify the performance (effectiveness) of concentric tube or double pipe heat exchanger without fins under parallel flow and counter flow. Compare theoretical and experimental results. 21. Verify the performance (effectiveness) of spiral tube Spiral tube heat exchanger under parallel flow and counter flow. Compare theoretical and experimental results. 22. Verify the performance (effectiveness) of spiral tube double pipe heat exchanger with fins under parallel flow and counter flow. Compare theoretical and experimental results. 23. Verify the performance (effectiveness) of Plate exchanger under parallel flow and counter flow. Compare theoretical and experimental results. 24. Discuss the design of a thermos having glass bottle inside, to maintain a specific temperature of water in summer for specific time period. 25. Comparison of experimental and theoretical power for an electric kettle. Consider all losses. Compare theoretical results with an available kettle for length of the element and power required for specific time duration of heating up to certain temperature. 26. Design of solar geyser to replace the domestic standard gas geyser. Compare running cost of these two systems. 27. Design an experiment in your heat transfer lab to calculate the thermal conductivity (‘k’) of Iron, Aluminum, wood and rubber. Compare experimental and theoretical results. 28. Design an experiment in your heat transfer lab to calculate the thermal conductivity (‘k’) of Copper, glass, foam, and brick. Compare experimental and theoretical results. 29. Design an experiment in your heat transfer lab to calculate the thermal conductivity (‘k’) of water, air and oil. Compare experimental and theoretical results. 30. Design a composite wall for your class room wall exposing to atmosphere during summer to reduce heat transfer up to 60%. Propose design for windows also. 31. Compare the effectiveness of four different heat exchangers available in your Heat Transfer Lab. Discuss the reasons of high or low effectiveness of these heat exchangers. (Use counter-flow arrangement). 32. Design an experiment in your heat transfer lab to calculate convective heat transfer coefficient (‘h’) over a square plate for a constant air velocity over it. Compare theoretical and experimental values of ‘h’ and discuss. 33. Design a condenser for a power plant in your Thermodynamics lab; compare its design with the existing one. 34. Discuss the design of a vacuum flask available in the market, to maintain a specific temperature of water in summer for specific time period. 35. Calculate the overall heat transfer coefficient (U) of spiral tube heat exchanger available in your heat transfer lab. Compare your results with available data in the literature. 36. Calculate the Area density of car radiator of 800 cc car. Verify is it a compact heat exchanger? Compare “beta” with a car radiator without fins. Calculate its effectiveness also. 37. Calculate the Area density of three different heat exchangers in your heat transfer lab. Double pipe, double pipe with fins and spiral tube heat exchangers. Discuss their compactness. Also calculate the effectiveness of highest ‘beta heat exchanger with parallel flow arrangement. 38. Plot effectiveness with respect to NTU using three different heat exchangers (double pipe, double pipe with fins and spiral tube) with parallel and counter flow arrangement for a constant heat capacity ratio. Compare your results with figure 13.27 of your text book. 39. Calculate the overall heat transfer coefficient (U) of double pipe heat exchanger with and without fins available in your heat transfer lab. Compare your results with available data in the literature.