CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, DEPARTMENT
HEAT TRANSFER RESEARCH
LABORATORY
Heat Transfer
Research Laboratory was established in the department of Chemical
Engineering in 1968 primary to conduct and supervise the research activitiesin
the area of heat transfer. Since then it has been active in pursuing
research in terms of Ph.D. degrees and Post graduate dissertation in
chemical, mechanical,Pulp & Paper and other branches of engineering.
H.T.R.L. was started with the fundamental research but with the passage
of time it has diversified into application oriented research in heat
transfer, energy engineering, process integration and other elite areas.
Ph.D. Theses
Completed :
1.
Forced circulation heat transfer during
boiling of
refrigerants.
1970
2. Nucleate pool boiling of liquid
mixtures 1972
3. Heat transfer studies in agitated
liquids. 1975
4. Heat transfer during condensation of freons with
forced circulation in horizontal
tubes 1975
5. Heat transfer studies in pool
boiling of liquids 1977
6. Heat transfer from horizontal
cylinders to liquid pools 1978
7. Nucleate pool boiling of aqueous
salt solutions
1979
8. Heat transfer studies in a vertical
tube of a closed loop
thermosyphon
1980
9. Heat transfer studies in pool
boiling of saturated liquids 1980
10. Nucleate pool boiling of liquids and
their mixtures at
sub- atmospheric
pressures. 1982
11. Nucleate pool boiling of saturated
liquids on horizontal
cylinders
1983
12. Heat transfer studies during
nucleate pool boiling of
binary liquid
mixtures. 1986
13. Condensation of steam on short tubes
in horizontal rows
placed in a vertical
grid. 1987
14. Nucleate pool boiling of liquids
from horizontal tubes in a vertical
grid.
1987
15. Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer
on bundle of tubes
1988
16. Studies of pool boiling heat
transfer from a heating tube in vertical
and horizontal
orientations. 1989
17. Studies on short tube multiple
effect sugar cane juice
evaporators.
1990
18. Nucleate pool boiling on horizontal
plain and wire screen
wrapped tubes in a vertical
grid. 1991
19. Studies on burning behavior on metal
powder fires and their
extinguishment.
1991
20. Development of quasi-stationary
flame front technique for
steady flame spread rate of
materials under radiant heat flux. 1991
21. Energy conservation in multiple
effect evaporators 1992
22. Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer
from finned tubes
1992
23. Nucleate pool boiling of distilled
water on a wire screen
wrapped tubes
1992
24. Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer
from re-entrant cavity
surfaces.
1993
25. Condensation of steam on a vertical
array of horizontal tubes.1993
26. Energy conservation studies for
multiple effect house of pulp
and paper mill.
1993
27. Boiling heat transfer from plain and
integral finned tubes
1994
28. Studies of boiling heat transfer
from plain and integral fin
tubes to binary and ternary liquid
mixtures. 1994
29. Caustic soda industries in
India: prospects for future growth. 1996
30. Boiling heat transfer from a
vertical row of horizontal tubes
and its application to the reboiler
simulation. 1999
31.
Nucleate pool boiling of saturated liquids on horizontal tube
surfaces coated with
Teflon. 1999
32. Strategies
for design and simulation of heat exchanger
networks
1999
Current
Research Projects
1.
Nucleate pool boiling
of liquids on PTFE coated heating surfaces.
2.
Heat transfer studies
of boiling of liquids on plasma deposited surfaces.
3.
Mathematical
modeling of boiling heat transfer on porous surfaces.
4.
Sequencing
of columns for heat integration exchangers.
Sponsored Research Projects
Ø
Thermal
performance of tubes of an industrial multi-tube vaporiser.
- A MHRD R&D Projects -
Rs. 22.9
Lacs
1992
Ø
Testing and Estimation of
Physical Properties
- An AICTE projects
- Rs.
5
Lacs 1995
Ø
Process Integration in Process
Industry
- An AICTE projects - Rs.
10
Lacs 1996
