G29: Analysis of Heat Transfer in a Baby Incubator
Channel: Sunthar's Lectures in Chemical Engineering
Date: 2023-01-12

Cornerstone Project in Heat Transfer,  Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay CL246 2021-2 (or Jan 2022)

An incubator is a fixture to ensure that babies needing extra support have the best possible environment and continual monitoring. It is like a second womb that is designed to protect a baby and provide the optimal conditions for their development.

In an infant incubator, there are excessive heat losses and so, it becomes difficult to maintain the required temperature inside the incubator. To maintain a constant temperature inside the incubator for the baby, expensive equipment is made and due to that, the cost of treatment increases and hence the affordability decreases

Problem: To find out change in heat loss (by calculating total heat transfer coefficient) in an infant incubator during the incubation period of a few days, before and after the use of double-walled incubators.

Sayannil Das
Sunidhi Rana
Shivam Raj
Adesh Pravin Bhavsar
Pavan Kumar M S
Vinit Nikam
Shivam Vinod Patil
Puja Maitra

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