Laboratory Administrators: SOPHIALIDIS Dimitrios (Associate Professor), STOILAS Georgios (Application Instructor).
The laboratory is located on the ground floor of Heavy Engineering Laboratory of the Department.
EQUIPMENT
The workshop is equiped with the following:
- Closed network appliance with KAPLAN water turbine with variable angle fins.
- PELTON water turbine system.
- Axial fan with import & export ducts.
- Network appliance with centrifugal pump and PELTON water turbine.
- Centrifugal blower witch changeable propeller.
- Piping network with two centrifugal pumps capable of individual operation and connection in series or parallel.
- Channel flow to calculate hydrodynamic forces on bodies.
- Network for the calculation of linear and local pressure losses.
The laboratory has auxiliary equipment such as:
- Viscometer
- Pitot. Tubes
- Flowmeters
- Manometers
- Dynamometers
- Instruments for measuring electrical quantities
SUPPORT OF COGNITIVE OBJECT
The laboratory serves the laboratory parts of the following classes:
A. Fluid Mechanics I & II, of the 4th and 5th semester, respectively
- Calculation of physical properties
- Measurement of hydrostatic forces
- Measurement of forces due to flow in bodies or walls in contact with fluid
- Measurement of loss of pressure in closed networks.
B. Hydrodynamic machines of the 6th semester
- Laboratory determination of operating characteristics curves of centrifugal pump.
- Mapping of the centrifugal blower.
- Mapping of axial fan blower.
- Definintion of centrifugal pump performance curves in dynamic conditions of similarity.
- Classification of KAPLAN & PELTON water turbine.
- Conjunction centrifugal pump and hydraulic system, finding operating point.
- Calculate fin angle of centrifugal pump.