OBJECTIVES

At the end of the experiment,student should be able to :

1. To observe the saturation pressure of steam for distilled water at different
temperature.
2. To plot the saturation line of water on P-T diagram.
3. To state differences between absolute and gauge pressure.







EQUIPMENTS

1. Vapor pressure Power Apparatus
2. Data Acquisition Software for LS-17123 Pressure Power Apparatus
3. 4L Tap Water and 4L Distilled Water
























SAFETY PRECAUTIONS


1) Keep all the body parts away from the boiler and system piping when in operation
to avoid injury.
2) Always use personal proctective equipment (heat resistant gloves and protection
glasses ) when operating this system .
3) Always ensure that the boiler vessel is filled with water until half full before
operating to prevent heater burnout.
4) Ensure that the boiler valves are kept closed when the system is in operating .
5) Keep all body parts and objects away from the relief valve blowdown line.The
safetyrelief valve will automatically discharge steam through the blowdown line
in the event of boiler over pressure.
6) Keep all the body parts and objects away from the moving mechanical parts of the
turbine and generator.










PROCEDURES
1) The water inlet port at the bottom of the boiler is connected to a water supply.
2) The outlet port at the top of the boiler is connected to a relief valve blowdown line and
the discharge port to adrain.
3) The lower valve are opened and the throttling valve.The boiler vessel is filled with tap
water until half full.The heater cartridge is completely submerged in water.
4) Both the valve are closed.
5) The main switch is switched on.
6) The temperature is set at 160C and switch on heater.
7) When the temperature reaches 90C ,the upper valve is slowly opened.Air deposit in the
boiler is removed.The upper valve is fully closed when steam flow out from the outlet.
8) The Data Acquistion Software is runned and data logging is started.
9) Once the bolier reaches at pressure 3.7 BAR ,the throttling valve is slowly opened .The
throttling reaches the pressure 3 BAR and closed.
10) The turbine valve is slowly opened. The turbine speed was allowed to gradually pick up
speed.
11) The turbine valve was fully opened.
12) The lamps was switched on one by one until all the four lamps are switched on.
Between switchingon each lamp, the turbine was allowed to run for 5 to 10 seconds so
that a set of reading can be captured by the software.
13) The procedure was repeated using distilled water.
14) All the lamps are switched off.
15) The heater and the main switch are switched off.