Engineering Teaching Lab Apparatus

Drain Permeameter: acrylic column, 100mm diameter supported on a metal stand;.

Temperature Measurement and Calibration: A bench top unit comprising a hypsometer /hot water bath and ice flask which generate accurate fixed points and…

Expansion Processes of a Perfect Gas: the device follows the properties of a Perfect Gas using air to determine the basic thermodynamic processes.

Thermo Electric Heat Pump: small-scale accessory designed to demonstrate the use of a Peltier devic e to transfer heat across surfaces.

Tubular Heat Exchanger: to determine the overall heat transfer coefficient 'U' in the parallel flow and counter-flow heat exchanger and to plot the…

Vapour Compression Refrigeration Unit: complete refrigeration system enabling demonstration of the vapour compression refrigeration cycle.

Filtration Unit: A benchtop unit comprising a vacuum formed ABS plastic plinth with integral electrical console on to which is mounted the filtration system.

Wetted Wall Gas Absorption Column: A floor standing apparatus, used for demonstration and determination of liquid film mass transfer coefficients.

Stirred Tank Reactors in Series: A self-contained bench mounted small-scale unit fitted with three continuous stirred reactors in series, which are fed from…

Floor mounted packed column gas absorption unit using a 75mm diameter, 1.4m long clear acrylic column.

Fixed Bed Adsorption Unit: A benchtop unit comprising a vacuum formed ABS plastic plinth with integral electrical console onto which is mounted the stainless…

Fundamentals of Statics: experimental setup to demonstrate simple, planar force systems; panel for easy mounting of various experimental components.

Inclined Plane and Friction: supplementary set extends the scope of experiments which can be performed with elastic deflection of a helical spring and forces…

Equilibrium in a Single Plane, Statically Determinate System.

Equilibrium of Moments on a Two-Arm Lever. For lab equipment labs; quotes on request.

Forces Simple Bar Structure: in the single plane system the bars are only subjected to compression and tension; loads are applied only to the nodes.

Based on the example of a crane jib, forces are determined graphically and experimentally: resultant cable force, tensile force, compressive force.

Dry Friction: mechanical friction between 2 solid bodies; friction body stationary, support friction surface in a moving carriage.

Fundamentals of Mechanical Friction: the unit is used to determine coefficients of friction, it provides fundamental experiments relating to static and…

Forces in a Howe Truss: as light-weight structures offering a high degree of rigidity, trusses are employed in the construction of halls, bridges, cranes…

Forces Overdeterminate Truss: overdeterminate trusses are employed where overdimensioning is purposely required because safety must be maintained in the…

The object of the experiment is to measure the bar forces in a single plane truss subjected to a single external force.

Friction experiments on the inclined plane help students to understand the fundamentals of mechanical friction.

Lines of Influence on the Gerber Beam; many bridges are executed as Gerber beams; bridges are subjected to moving loads.