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ME-503 (C) · Alternate Automotive Fuels & Emissions/Official Syllabus

Alternate Automotive Fuels & Emissions (ME-503 (C)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Introduction Automobile Fuels

  • Classification of Automobile alternative fuels(liquid, gaseous, hydrogen, LPG, CNG, Biogas etc.)
  • Desirable characteristics of SI & CI engine alternative fuels
  • Rating of SI & CI engine fuels
  • Introduction to alternate energy sources. Like EV, hybrid, fuel cell and solar cars
  • merits and demerits of various alternate fuels
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Unit 2

Liquid alternative fuels

  • Vegetable Oils: Various vegetable oils for automobile engines
  • esterification
  • performance in engines, performance and emission characteristics
  • bio diesel and its characteristics
  • Alcohols: Properties as engine fuel, alcohols and gasoline blends
  • performance in automobile engine, methanol and gasoline blends
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Unit 3

Gaseous Fuels

  • Biogas: Introduction to Biogas system, Process during gas formation, Factors affecting biogas formation
  • Usage of Biogas in SI engine & CI engine.
  • Properties of Natural gas, Hydrogen gas, LPG & CNG as engine fuels
  • storage and handling
  • performance and safety aspects to all gaseous fuel
  • fuel metering systems
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Unit 4

Automobile emissions

  • Types of automobile emissions
  • emission characteristics, formation of automobile emissions
  • mechanism of HC , CO and NO in SI engine
  • exhaust emission and factors affecting the emission
  • evaporative emission, crankcase emission, lead emission
  • CI engine emissions: formation of smoke, factors affecting the smoke formation
  • unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, smog and comparison of diesel and petrol emissions
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Unit 5

Emissions Norms & Measurement

  • Emission norms as per Bharat Standard up to BS – IV and procedures for confirmation on production
  • Demerits of automobile emission to environment
  • Types Of Catalytic Conversion
  • Measurement Techniques Emission Standards and Test Procedure NDIR,FID, Chemiluminescent analyzers, Gas Chromatograph, smoke meters, emission standards

Laboratory Experiments

  • Study of alternative fuel for automobile.
  • Study of esterification of alternative fuels.
  • Study of blending different types of bio-diesel.
  • Measurement of smoke from automobile.
  • Study of different types of emissions.
  • Study of various techniques for NOx reduction.

Reference Books

  • Internal combustion Engines — J.B. Heywood — Wiley
  • Internal Combustion engines — Ganeshan V — TMH
  • A. Course in IC engines — Mathur M L, Sharma RP — DhanpatRai
  • Internal Combustion Engines — R Yadav
  • Automotive Engines theory and servicing — Halderman JD, Mitchell CD — Pearson
  • Internal Combustion Engines — DomKundwar — Dhanpat Rai Publications
  • Internal Combustion Engines Theory & Practice — Taylor GF — MIT Press
  • Introduction to IC Engines — Richard Stone — Society of Automotive Engr (Palgrave Mc Millan)
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