GALLERY OF PROTOTYPES ENGINEERING TEACHING AND RESEARCH EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS IMTPROCESS-HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS

Abstract

In challenging the lack of equipment for engineering education, the IMT Process-Heat-Transfer Apparatus was developed. The prototype development entailed mechanical workshop process for heat exchanger fabrication; glass blowing process for manometer construction; wood work process for bench construction; fitting process for centrifugal pumps, watertanks, electric thermostat water heaters, switches, rotameters, and differential manometers; plumbing process for cold and hot water channels; tubing process for manometer ducts; and wiring process for the centrifugal pumps and electric heaters via the switches. The photograph of the completed prototype was enclosed below and the prototype was found usable in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions of learning. The prototype IMT Process-Heat-Transfer Apparatus was exhibited in 1990 International Trade Fair held in Enugu where it earned the recognition of the panelists of FOPCIT (Foundation for the Promotion and Commercialisation of Indigenous Technology). Subsequently, the article about the prototype was invited for publication and documentation by the FOPCIT’s panelists.