Education Equipment for Teaching Alternative Energy Principles

The alternative range offers teaching equipment for the core principles of different types of alternative energy including solar and wind turbine generated energy.

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  • TecQuipment Next Generation Structures
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    STR11 - Experiment

    TecQuipment's Fixed Arch (STS11) is an experiment for the study of the characteristics of a fixed arch under various load conditions. Mounts on the Structures platform and connects to the Structures automatic data acquisition unit and software. This is one of the 21 apparatuses available in TQ's Next Generation Structures engineering lab experiments.

  • Engineering Education | Solar Energy
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    TE39 - Experiment

    A portable floor standing training apparatus to demonstrate and investigate the performance of a flat plate solar energy collector.

  • TecQuipment | Aerodynamics Education
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    AF41 - Experiment

    TecQuipment's Flight Demonstration Wind Tunnel (AF41) is an open-circuit wind tunnel incorporating a suspended aircraft model with realistic controls for classroom demonstrations and student investigations into a variety of aircraft flight principles.

  • Matrix Process Control Training Systems
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    CT0673

    The Flow system consists of a water tank, a variable speed pump, a turbine-type flow sensor, an electrically operated proportional valve and a variable area flow meter (rotameter). This allows students ...

  • TecQuipment | Fluid Mechanics
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    H10 - Experiment

    The TecQuipment Flow Measurement Methods (H10) investigates different ways of measuring flow including a Venturi meter, an orifice plate, and a rotameter. At the same time shows applications of the steady flow energy equation (Bernoulli's equation).

  • TecQuipment | Engineering Training Equipment
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    H40 - Experiment

    TecQuipment's Flow Meter Calibration (H40) is a compact unit that compares and shows the accuracy, losses and use of fundamental flow meters. Includes a nozzle flow meter as standard.

  • TecQuipment | Process Control
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    TE3300/03 - Experiment

    A self-contained mobile module for flow process control experiments to illustrate the principles of single-loop control and the calibration & tuning of controllers, transmitters, converters and valves. Demonstrates feedback control, P/PI/PID control and flow control. Cascade control experiments available when used with the optional pressure or level process training systems. Distributed control available when used with optional computer control system.

  • TecQuipment | Fluid Mechanics
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    H4 - Experiment

    An apparatus to study of the flow of water through a vertically mounted orifice.

  • TecQuipment | Flow Visualization Wind Tunnel (AF80)
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    AF80 - Experiment

    A floor standing suction type subsonic wind tunnel with smoke visualisation. It allows demonstrations and student investigations into the flow of air around a wide variety of different shaped models.

  • TecQuipment | Fluid Mechanics
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    H408 - Experiment

    A floor standing apparatus to allow students to investigate the phenomena of laminar, transitional and turbulent flows in pipe systems.

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