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ME-601 · Thermal Engineering and Gas Dynamics/Official Syllabus

Thermal Engineering and Gas Dynamics (ME-601) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Steam generators and boilers

  • 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
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Unit 2

Vapour Cycles

  • Vapor Carnot cycle and its limitation
  • Rankin cycle
  • effect of boiler and Condenser pressure and superheat on end moisture and efficiency of ranking cycle
  • modified Rankin 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
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Unit 3

Gas Dynamics

  • 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
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Unit 4

Air Compressors

  • 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
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Unit 5

Nozzles and Condensers

  • isentropic flow of vapors
  • flow of steam through nozzles
  • condition for maximum discharge
  • effect of friction
  • super-saturated flow
  • Steam condensers, 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

Laboratory Experiments

  • Study of working of some of the high pressure boilers like Lamont or Benson
  • Study of Induced draft/forced and balanced draft by chimney
  • Determination of Calorific value of a fuel
  • Study of different types of steam turbines
  • Determination of efficiencies of condenser
  • Boiler trail to chalk out heat balance sheet
  • Determination of thermal efficiency of steam power plant
  • Determination of Airflow in ducts and pipes
  • To find out efficiencies of a reciprocating air compressor and study of multistage Compressors
  • Find Out heat transfer area of a parallel flow/counter flow heat exchanger

Reference Books

  • Thermal Engineering
  • Basic and applied Thermo-dynamics
  • Power plant Engineering
  • Gas Dynamics
  • Gas Dynamics for Engineers
  • Fundamentals of Compressible flow
  • Thermodynamics
  • Thermal Engg.
  • An Introduction to Energy Conversion - Vol II. Energy conversion cycles
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