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Controller (CE120)
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Inspiring future engineers
Since 1958, TecQuipment has been dedicated to
developing products that inspire students at universities,
colleges, schools and training centres in over 100 countries.
Our products help students understand key concepts in
many fields of engineering and science, including
Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics,
Materials Testing, plus many more. TecQuipment’s
products include detailed manuals and instructional
material that are specifically designed to aid instructors to
provide students with the facilities to grasp the key
concepts covered by the systems.
Through intuitive design and thorough safety features,
students are able to get hands-on with complex systems
that will spark a passion for engineering and knowledge of
the relevant topics.
The quality of our products is central
throughout our design processes
and manufacturing, which gives
us the confidence to offer a fiveyear warranty on all of our
equipment. This five-year
warranty will be reinforced by a
dedicated team of specialists at
TecQuipment with lifetime support when
you purchase our products.
Subsonic Wind Tunnel (AF100)
Aerodynamics
TecQuipment’s Aerodynamics range has
equipment to cover all your curricula needs, from
introductory level with our Modular Air Flow
Bench to the complex Supersonic Wind Tunnel.
KEY FEATURES AND
BENEFITS:
Made for education and training
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Made for teaching:
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Flexibility: you can
choose a package of
equipment to suit your
budget and needs.
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Easy set-up: it takes
only minutes to change
and set up an
experiment.
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Hands-on: laboratory-
As with all our products, we make the Aerodynamics range for
use in teaching and training environments. It may be used for
research projects or teaching from first principles to advanced
ideas. The equipment is small enough to fit in most laboratories,
while still producing results that you can scale to match those of
full-size wind tunnels. The subsonic and special-purpose wind
tunnels are mobile to help with laboratory layouts.
Modular Air Flow Bench (AF10)
realistic results yet small
enough for laboratories.
scale parts allow easy
fitting and adjustments,
for a more practical
understanding.
Automatic data acquisition
Most of the products in this range work
with TecQuipment’s unique Versatile
Data Acquisition System (VDAS®).
Subsonic Wind Tunnel
(AF100)
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Control Engineering
KEY FEATURES AND
BENEFITS:
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Academic and
industrial: bench-top
products for academic
teaching and industrial
products for vocational
training.
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The Control Engineering range extends from benchtop products made for teaching control principles, to
products using industrial parts for vocational training.
Different choices
Both the academic and industrial control ranges allow you to
Choice: you can start
with a single control
scenario and build up,
or choose a more
complete product to suit
your budget and needs.
choose a single control scenario, such as flow control, with
Safe and easy set-up:
Examples of the many experiments in the range:
simple, low-voltage
connections allow you
to set up an experiment
safely and quickly.
the option of additional systems later. Alternatively, each
range includes a complete product that demonstrates a full
set of control scenarios from flow to pressure to temperature
and level control.
• Thermal Control Process Apparatus
• Engine Speed Control Apparatus
• Coupled Drives Apparatus
• Servo Trainer
PLC Process (CE111)
Hands-on: both the
academic and industrial
products allow easy
connection and
adjustments, for a more
practical understanding.
Ball and Beam
Apparatus (CE106)
Engineering Science
TecQuipment’s Engineering Science range opens up the world of
mechanical engineering to everyone. The range provides affordable,
hands-on learning that gives students the underlying theories of
mechanical engineering and entices them to further education on
the topics.
KEY FEATURES AND
BENEFITS:
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Value: each kit can
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Broad range of topics:
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Hands-on learning:
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Modular and cost
effective: select just
The Engineering Science range covers areas including:
• Materials testing
• Pulleys, cams and gears
• Forces, moments and vibration
• Friction
• Simple machines
This is a modular system based around a robust, re-usable
work panel onto which students set up and perform their
experiments. This means
you can order as much
Storage Unit (EST) with
experiment kits
or as little as you like,
and a comprehensive
perform a number of
different experiments.
from materials testing
and vibration to simple
machines and friction.
highly tactile, easy-touse components,
together with preprepared worksheets,
allow students to work
alone or with minimal
supervision.
the kits you need, or
buy the whole set.
system can be built up
over a period of time.
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Forces Kit (ES2)
No storage problems:
supplied in their own
robust trays with
optional mobile storage
unit.
Worksheets and background notes
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2.5 Metre Flow Channel (H23)
Fluid Mechanics
To save space, water and costs, the Fluid Mechanics range includes experiment
modules that work with our mobile hydraulic benches. The range also includes
free-standing products to show more specialised fluid
experiments, such as hydrostatics and hydrology.
KEY FEATURES AND
BENEFITS:
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Longevity: long-lasting
Over 50 years of experience
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Water and spacesaving: many
The Fluid Mechanics range includes modern versions of the first
experiments work with
the self-contained,
mobile hydraulic
benches to save water
and laboratory space.
products developed by TecQuipment over 50 years ago. These
products established our reputation for quality, safety, reliability and
service.
TecQuipment has added to and improved on the original range and it
now has a wide range of possible experiments, such as:
• Venturi Meter
• Pelton Turbine
• Friction Loss in a Pipe
• Impact of a Jet
• Series and Parallel Pump Test Set
Pipework Energy Losses (H34) and
Gravimetric Hydraulic Bench (H1)
equipment to teach
principles that do not
go out of date.
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Large choice of
experiments: a huge
range of experiments
for a complete course in
fluid mechanics, from
simple flow and
pressure measurements
to advanced studies of
vortices and openchannel flow.
Modular Fluid Power range
The Fluid Mechanics range includes a sub-section of Modular Fluid
Power products to demonstrate real-world applications of fluid
mechanics. They include pumps and turbines, which also provide a
link to renewable energy.
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Materials Testing
KEY FEATURES AND
BENEFITS:
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Refined products:
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Broad and
progressive range of
experiments: teaches
refined through
experience to meet the
needs of a modern
materials course.
the fundamental
principles, progressing
to complex stress and
strain analysis.
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Automatic data
acquisition: multiple
and fast-changing
measurements make
data acquisition a
valuable tool.
TecQuipment has decades of experience making products that test materials
specimens, refining and developing them over time to match the needs of
modern engineering courses. These high-quality, robust products are made for
the teaching laboratory, giving the long-term performance and reliability needed
for accurate and dependable results.
Broad and progressive range
From the most basic theoretical level such as
Hooke’s Law and Young’s Modulus, to the more
advanced but ever popular destructive tests that can
be achieved on equipment such as our Universal
Testing Machine. TecQuipment offers a broad range
of equipment to demonstrate the principles of
bending, creep, tension and toughness.
Strain Gauge Trainer (SM1009)
Screenshot of VDAS® software
Automatic data acquisition
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Bench-top Tensile Testing
Machine (SM1002)
Some of the
products in this
range work with our unique Versatile
Data Acquisition System (VDAS®).
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Renewable Energy
TecQuipment recognises the
importance of products that
demonstrate future technologies.
Flat-Plate
Solar Energy
Collector
(TE39)
KEY FEATURES AND
BENEFITS:
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Photovoltaic, focusing
and flat plate energy
collection:
demonstrate three key
methods used in
harnessing solar energy.
Products for the future
Our Renewable Energy range covers three key methods
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used to harness and convert solar energy. These include:
monitoring solar energy
collection can lead to
long-term experiments,
making automatic data
acquisition a valuable
tool.
• Photovoltaic (conversion to electricity)
• Focusing (to a collector)
• Flat plate collection (direct water heating)
Many of the other founding principles of renewable energy
are relevant to other TecQuipment product ranges such as
For example, our Modular Fluid Power
Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Control Engineering.
products include turbines to harness the energy
in water. The Aerodynamics and Fluid
Mechanics ranges include experiments to show
how shapes affect air and water flow. These are
essential tools for engineers when designing wind
or water energy systems.
Automatic data
acquisition:
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Safe and easy set up:
low temperatures, safe
connections and simple
hand-operated controls
allow you to set up an
experiment safely and
quickly.
Automatic data acquisition
All the products in
this range work
with our unique Versatile Data
Acquisition System (VDAS®).
Photovoltaic Cells (TE4)
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Statics Fundamentals
KEY FEATURES AND
BENEFITS:
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Flexibility: share one
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Hands-on: large tactile
parts for students to fit
and adjust.
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Highly visual: for
work panel between
experiment kits, or one
work panel for each kit.
classroom
demonstrations or
groups of students.
This highly visual range of products is modular to once again provide customers
with the flexibility to tailor our products around their respective curricula. This
range covers a vast array of the topics relating to static equilibrium and is the
perfect introduction to support our Structures range which provides more
advanced theories on the subject.
Visual and hands-on
The Statics Fundamentals products continue TecQuipment’s
core value of creating ‘hands-on’ equipment. Students or
teachers assemble and adjust the parts for highly visual and
tactile experiments, including:
• Equilibrium of a rigid body
• Equilibrium of forces
• Equilibrium of a beam
Equilibrium of a Rigid Body (STF3)
Have you also seen our
Structures and Engineering
Science ranges?
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Example pages
from the user
guides
The equipment uses the latest
developments in educational design
to teach many structural and
underlying mechanical engineering
principles.
Suspension Cable Demonstration (STF2)
Structures
TecQuipment’s modular Structures range offers a
cost-effective, flexible teaching system that we
believe is the most advanced product in its field.
KEY FEATURES AND
BENEFITS:
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Functionality:
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Expansive: The
Structures Software
provides virtual
experiments, which
allow students to
complete experiments
beyond the limits of the
equipment.
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Flexible: Experiments
The range teaches basic principles to more advanced theory. It
has 19 desk-mounting hardware experiment modules supported
by full automatic data acquisition, and TecQuipment’s powerful
and popular Structures Software.
The experiments include:
• Bending moments in a beam
Fixed Arch (STR11) and Automatic Data
Acquisition Unit (STR2000)
• Shear force in a beam
• Deflection of beams and cantilevers
• Plastic bending of portals
• Three-pinned arch
• Two-pinned arch
• Buckling of struts
and many more…
High-quality design and
manufacture, combined
with modularity,
extensive capabilities,
choice of hardware and
software, means our
Structures range
provides an unsurpassed
teaching solution at an
unbeatable price.
are easily removed and
swapped for another,
making sensible use of
laboratory space and
time.
Structures Software
(STRS)
Pin-Jointed Frameworks (STR8)
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Gears from the Bench-top Tensile Testing Machine (SM1002)
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Theory of Machines
An understanding of how machines work is fundamental to the vast majority of
engineering courses and provides students with knowledge that will serve them
throughout their entire academic and future careers.
KEY FEATURES AND
BENEFITS:
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to suit teaching from
fundamental to
advanced principles.
Governors
Basic and advanced
(TM1027)
The Theory of Machines range includes equipment that
teaches the basics of machine engineering such as vibration
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Safety by design:
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Automatic data
acquisition: fast-
and motion, to more advanced studies of friction in bearings.
This range is constantly expanding and improving, with
experiments including:
• Whirling of shafts
• Centrifugal force
Basic to advanced
teaching: equipment
• Geared systems
some equipment uses
highly visual rotating
parts, but interlocked
guards prevent
accidents.
moving equipment
often needs multiple
fast measurements,
making data acquisition
a powerful tool.
• Balance of reciprocating masses
Screenshot of VDAS® software
Air Bearing
Apparatus
(TE96)
Automatic data acquisition
Some of the products in this range work
with TecQuipment’s unique Versatile
Data Acquisition System (VDAS®).
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Small Engine Test Set (TD200)
Thermodynamics
Over the last decade TecQuipment has improved and grown this range to include
a large variety of products that now cover topics starting from thermodynamics
laws, such as Boyle’s Law, and varying heat exchanger modules up to complex
systems such as engine testing and gas turbines.
KEY FEATURES AND
BENEFITS:
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Safe and practical
design: reduced
experiment times.
Safe, practical and realistic
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Guided by educational experts and students,
Broad range of
products: covers from
basic principles to gas
turbines.
TecQuipment has developed and expanded this range
to include an extensive selection of high-quality, robust
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products. Our experience has shown that
thermodynamics experiments can take many hours, so
Automatic data
acquisition:
thermodynamics
experiments need
several minutes of
constant monitoring to
achieve thermal
equilibrium, making
automatic data
acquisition a useful tool.
our designs reduce the experiment time to a practical
and realistic level, with safety as the key aspect.
Modular Fluid Power
Our Modular Fluid Power range includes products that
can be analysed in terms of thermodynamic
performance, such as compressors.
Forced Convection
Heat Transfer (TD1)
Water-to-Air Heat
Exchangers
(TD1007)
Automatic data acquisition
Most of the Thermodynamic and Heat Transfer products work with
TecQuipment’s unique Versatile Data Acquisition System (VDAS®).
TecQuipment’s gas turbine products work with our unique Gas
Turbine software.
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VDAS® mkII
KEY FEATURES AND
BENEFITS:
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Modern, cost-effective
digital automatic data
acquisition hardware,
software and accessories
to enhance teaching
and laboratory sessions
Enables high-capacity, accurate, efficient and user-friendly digital automatic data
acquisition for a wide range of TecQuipment products.
Why choose VDAS®
TecQuipment’s VDAS® (Versatile Data
Frame-mounting Versatile
Data Acquisition System
(VDAS-F mkII) interface unit
Acquisition System) is the most up-to-
Highly versatile system
for use with equipment
from many
TecQuipment product
ranges
date and effective data acquisition
Enables real-time data
capture, monitoring and
display of all relevant
parameters on a
computer (PC)
wide range of features and benefits.
system currently available for
education. There are other solutions
on the market, but none which offer
the same convenience, functionality or
Bench-top Versatile Data Acquisition
System (VDAS-B mkII) interface unit
Software is intuitive and
easy to use, with clear
and convenient data
display options
Real Time
Displays
Output
signals
Highly accurate and
noise-resistant
Data
Exported
Data
Charts
VDAS®-compatible
TecQuipment product
VDAS® interface
unit
Tables of
data
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VDAS is a registered trademark of TecQuipment Ltd
Satisfied customers around the world
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The Structures equipment from TecQuipment is
being used to teach student groups at
undergraduate level. There is minimal setup
required and students are easily able to switch
between experiments. The excellent quality of the
TecQuipment manuals has enabled us to design our
labs with relative ease. The equipment was
delivered on schedule and the AYVA team has been
very diligent in following up and providing us with
the resources we need in a timely fashion.
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We believe that your visit to make our wind
tunnel ready to train our students and staff was a
great success and we thank you for the great effort
you did for us. It was very effective and useful work
that raised the spirits of all the Aeronautical
Engineering Department staff as well as the
College Administration.
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Our students are comfortable while
using products from TecQuipment in labs.
Highly innovative products by
TecQuipment Ltd for engineering
education are ideal for engineering and
technical education at all levels. Our
students are regularly using this
equipment for masters and doctoral
research. The products are user-friendly
and need minimum after-sales service.
Dr Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Dean, College of
Engineering, Sudan University of Science and
Technology
Dr H J Kwon, Professor, Department of
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering,
University of Waterloo, Canada
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Prof R D Misal, Defence Institute of
Advanced Technology, Girinagar, Pune,
India
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For a number of years now we have procured labbased teaching resources from TecQuipment for use
within mechanical and electrical engineering
laboratories. Operation of this equipment, coupled
with the robust build quality, provides students with a
clear understanding of the intrinsic features behind
thermo-fluids and mechanical principles. This instils
confidence for a safe, hands-on experience
demonstrating these principles in practice.
Furthermore, the build quality of TecQuipment
products also gives assurance that the investment
made satisfies our ongoing teaching needs well in to
the future
The TecQuipment teaching
solutions and scalable teaching
equipment has allowed the Thermal
Engineering and Energy Department
to provide training up to Masters
degree level with continuous and
undeniable quality.
At ECU we have been going through a rapid
phase of expansion with our engineering programs
since 2006. This has involved the establishment of a
significant number of new laboratories and
workshops, for which we have identified
TecQuipment products to be among the best.
Graham Preece, Faculty of Computing,
Engineering and Sciences, Staffordshire University
Prof Jean-Noël Blanchard, IUT
Orleans, France
Prof Daryoush Habibi, Edith Cowan University,
Australia
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TecQuipment Ltd
Bonsall Street
Long Eaton
Nottingham NG10 2AN
UK
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+44 115 972 2611
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www.tecquipment.com
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