ME-601 RGPV B.Tech
Thermal Engineering and Gas Dynamics (TEGD)
Previous year papers and the official syllabus are free to read, no account needed.
Previous Year Papers
6 papers, latest Jun 2026
- ME-601 paper, Jun 2026
- ME-601 paper, Jun 2025
- ME-601 paper, Dec 2024
- ME-601 paper, May 2024
- ME-601 paper, May 2023
- ME-601 paper, May 2022
Syllabus, notes and important questions for ME-601
Syllabus units
Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.
Unit 1 Steam generators and boilers 12 topics
- Steam generators: classification
- Conventional boilers
- High‑pressure boilers – Lamont, Benson, Loeffler and Velox steam generators
- Performance and rating of boilers
- Equivalent evaporation
- Boiler efficiency
- Heat balance sheet
- Combustion in boilers
- Super critical boilers
- Fuel and ash handling
- Boiler draught
- Overview of boiler codes
Unit 2 Vapour Cycles 11 topics
- Phase change cycles: Vapor Carnot cycle and its limitation
- Rankine cycle
- Effect of boiler and condenser pressure and superheat on end moisture and efficiency of Rankine cycle
- Modified Rankine cycle
- Reheat cycle
- Perfect regenerative cycle
- Ideal and actual regenerative cycle with single and multiple heaters
- Open and closed type of feed‑water heaters
- Regenerative‑reheat cycle
- Supercritical pressure and binary‑vapor cycle
- Work‑done and efficiency calculations
Unit 3 Gas Dynamics 12 topics
- Speed of sound in a fluid
- Mach number
- Mach cone
- Stagnation properties
- One‑dimensional isentropic flow of ideal gases through variable‑area duct – Mach number variation
- Area ratio as a function of Mach number
- Mass flow rate and critical pressure ratio
- Effect of friction
- Velocity coefficient
- Coefficient of discharge
- Diffusers
- Normal shock
Unit 4 Air Compressors 10 topics
- Working of reciprocating compressor
- Work input for single‑stage compression (different compression processes)
- Effect of clearance
- Volumetric efficiency
- Real indicator diagram
- Isentropic, isothermal and mechanical efficiency
- Multi‑stage compression
- Inter‑cooling
- Condition for minimum work done
- Classification and working of rotary compressors
Unit 5 Nozzles and Condensers 10 topics
- Steam nozzles: isentropic flow of vapors
- Flow of steam through nozzles
- Condition for maximum discharge
- Effect of friction
- Super‑saturated flow
- Steam condensers and cooling towers – introduction
- Types of condensers
- Back pressure and its effect on plant performance
- Air leakage and its effect on performance of condensers
- Various types of cooling towers
Unit 6 == END OF UNITS==
The syllabus lists no separate topics for this unit.
Exam insights
Counted from 6 past ME-601 papers.
Marks asked per paper, by unit
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Unit 1 Steam generators and boilers 18 marks
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Unit 2 Vapour Cycles 24 marks
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Unit 3 Gas Dynamics 14 marks
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Unit 4 Air Compressors 27 marks
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Unit 5 Nozzles and Condensers 22 marks
Average marks of the questions from each unit in one paper. You answer only some of them, so the total is more than the paper’s maximum.
Asked again and again
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Describe the Rankine cycle and explain its working with the help of P-V and T-S diagrams.
Asked 4 times: 2026, 2025, 2022, 2020
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Calculate the minimum work (and heat rejected to intercooler) per kg for a two-stage compressor with perfect intercooling given suction $p,T$, delivery pressure and polytropic index.
Asked 3 times: 2026, 2024, 2023
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What are rotary compressors and how are air compressors / rotary compressors classified into types?
Asked 3 times: 2026, 2024, 2022