Facilities
The department is well equipped to conduct practicals for undergraduate degree programmes. The laboratories available in the department are as follows:
Fluid mechanics & Open channel hydraulics laboratory
Experiments
- Determination of meta-centric height
- Verification of Bernoulli’s theorem
- Measurement of discharge with venturi-and Orifice meter
- Measurement of velocity with a pitot tube
- Determination of coefficient of discharge of rectangular and triangular notch
- Determination of hydraulic coefficient of orifices and mouthpieces
- Experiment on broad crested weir, parshall flume and venture flume
- Determination of head losses in pipes
- Performance test on Francis turbine
- Determination of roughness coefficients of open chanels
- Measurement of velocity and pressure profiles in open chanels
- Hydraulic jump
Irrigation engineering laboratory
Experiments
- Measurement of soil moisture by different soil moisture measuring instruments
- Measurement of irrigation water using weir, flume and orifice
- Measurement of infiltration characteristics by using double ring infiltrometer
- Determination of bulk density, field capacity and wilting point
- Measurement of evapotranspiration
- Exercises on laser leveler
Chilly cultivation under green house
Eggplant cultivation under mulching
Fan Pad cooling system
Onion cultivation under green house
Subsurface drainage installed field
Drainage engineering laboratory
Experiments
- Field in-situ measurement of hydraulic conductivity by single auger hole method
- Determination of drainage coefficient
- Determination of drainable porosity
Pumps & Microirrigation laboratory
Experiments
Performance test for Centrifugal, Air lift, Propeller & Jet pumps
The department also has very good laboratory facilities available for the conduct of Master’s and Doctoral level research projects. Following are the facilities available in the department:
- Automatic fertigation system
- Volumetric control
- Time control
- pH & EC control
- Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potash dosage control
- Green houses and Net houses
- Hydroponics system
- Soil moisture measurement with Time Domain Reflectometry
- Lysimeter
- Automatic soil solution sampler
- Mini disk infiltrometer
Field irrigation laboratory
- Automatic drip irrigation system
- Manually operated drip irrigation system
- Low pressure and low cost drip irrigation system
- Sprinkler irrigation system
- Time based flow control valve for automatic irrigation
- Green house with fan and pad and fogger system
- Net house
- Hydrophonics
- Time domain reflectometry sensors
- Flow measuring devices – Trapezoidal notch, V-notch, Rectangular notch and Parshall flume
- Lysimeter
Irrigation and drainage laboratory
- Automatic soil solution sampler
- Lysimeter
- Minidisk infiltrometer
- Test rig for drip irrigation system
- Filters and strainers
- Test rig of air lift pump
- Test rig of centrifugal pump
- Test rig of jet pump
- Test rig of reciprocating pump
- Double ring infiltrometer
- Cut section model for centrifugal pump
- Cut section model for submersible pump
- Cut section model for turbine pump
- Tachometer
- Infiltration apparatus
- Drain permeameter
- Soil moisture suction sand table apparatus
- Augers
- Current meter
- Tensiometers
- Lateral laying machine
- Pressure gauge and vacuum gauge
Fluid mechanics laboratory
- Test rig of venturi meter
- Test rig of Orifice meter
- Flow over notches recirculating type
- Flow through mouthpiece & Orifice instrument recirculating type
- Losses in pipe fitting apparatus
- Reynolds apparatus
- Metacentric height of ship model apparatus
- Pitot tube apparatus
- Francis Turbine
- Hydraulic jump apparatus