The present set-up is designed to determine thermal conductivity of different liquids. It consists of a heater to heat a thin layer of liquid. A cooling plate removes heat through liquid layer, ensuring unidirectional heat flow. Temperature is measured across the liquid layer and complete assembly is properly insulated. A proper arrangement for changing the liquids is provided. The whole assembly is kept in a chamber. It has an interfacing unit designed by Engineers along with Labview software. This educational software allows/enables user to log the real time experimental data and tabulate the experimental/sample reading according to the requirement of experiment. User have a control on data logging, printing the stored data and preparing spread sheets in Excel. Flexible graph plotting facility is also available in the software.

• Control panel comprising of PID Controller (0-199.9 °C) for heater, electronic energy meter for power measurement, standard make On/off switch, Mains Indicator etc.
• Valves are provided for drain & charging line to make system flexible.
• Acrylic Cabinet to accommodate the slab assembly.
• An ENGLISH instruction manual consisting of experimental procedures, block diagram etc. will be provided along with the Apparatus.
• The whole set-up is well designed and arranged on a rigid structure painted with industrial PU Paint.

  Experimentation/Learning Objectives

•Determination of thermal conductivity of Liquid.

•To study the effect of temperature on thermal Conductivity of liquid.

Utilities Required

•Electricity Supply: 1 Phase, 220 V AC, 2 Amp.

•Water supply: 15 LPH

•Floor Drain

•Table for set-up support.

•Computer System: i-3 processor with DVD Drive, Windows 7/8, MS-Office pre-loaded. One USB slot required in PC for Data Acquisition Card.