University of Duhok

College of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Department

PRACTICAL EXPERIMENTS
HEAT TRANSFER LABORATORY

Experiment No. (1): FREE CONVECTION (power and

temperature)

Prepared By: Pshtiwan Ashraf -Group (A)-

Assist. Prof.:Dr. Arkan Fawzi Saeed (Head of mech. Eng. Dept.)

Lecturer: Dr. Oday Adnan Abbo (Manager of Dept. Labs.)

Introduction

The earlier experiments compare the effectiveness of the heat transfer surfaces in
free convection for a fixed power input. They show the flat plate is not effective;
reaching high temperatures even with low power input. Therefore, to compare the
surfaces at a range of powers excludes the flat plate as a workable option. The
experiment uses either the Pinned or Finned surfaces, varying their power input
while recording the surface temperature to establish the relationship between the
two. This experiment can take approximately 35 minutes to stabilize at each power
setting, so there may only be time to test one of the suggested surfaces. The
conclusions are the same for both but the Finned surface has the lowest thermal
mass, reaching equilibrium quickest.

Aims:

> To show the link between power and temperature on the Finned and Pinned

heat transfer surfaces when in free convection.

Procedure:
1- Take the heat transfer surface.
2- For our readings we create a table.
3- We start the process at the 0 power then during the process we increase the
power.
4- During the process we find the surface and inlet temperature and the
different between temperature.
5- Then repeat the procedure for other surface.

Table:

Heat Transfer Surface: Finned / pinned

T2 T1
Power Differene
Surface Ts Duct Inlet
(Watt) (Ts - Tin) (c)
(c) (ambient) (c)

0 17.4 15.9 1.5

10 34 16.9 17.1

20 46.4 17.4 29

30 59.4 17.7 41.7

 40 71.8 17.8 54

50 83.8 18.1 65.7

Chart:

Relation between power & Temperature difference

70

60

50
Temperature(Ts-Ti) (c)

40

30

20

10

0
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55

Power(watt)