Experiment to study the sudden discharge of a pressure vessel

Robert E. Coverdill, Dutton J. Craig

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Abstract

An experiment has been developed for the investigation of the sudden discharge of compressed gas from a pressure vessel through a chocked covering or converting-diverting nozzle. This experiment is used in required sensor-level course, ″Thermal Science laboratory″ in the mechanical engineering curriculum at the University of lllinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), the course has an enrollment of approximately 200 students per year. This discharge problem has many `Real world' applications, and hence is easily motivated for inclusion in a senior-level course. Although this experiment has excited in our curriculum for several years, the addition of computerized data acquisition system based on a Macintosh computer using graphical `Object Oriented Programming' software pressure transducers and thermocouples simplifies the collection of data, provides instant graphical representation of the data on the computer monitor, and also demonstrates to the students the power and utility of ordinary desktop computers in a laboratory environment. The experiment is relatively inexpensive to fabricate and yields excellent, repeatable data which agree well with the theory developed for the chocked discharge process.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationForum on Instructional Fluid Dynamics Experiments
EditorsD.A. Siginer, J.H. Kim, R.A. Bajura
PublisherPubl by ASME
Pages59-62
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)0791809609
StatePublished - 1993
EventThe Fluids Engineering Conference - Washington, DC, USA
Duration: Jun 20 1993Jun 24 1993

Publication series

NameAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FED
Volume152

Other

OtherThe Fluids Engineering Conference
CityWashington, DC, USA
Period6/20/936/24/93

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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