B.Tech Mechanical Engineering

ME 321                         Applied Thermodynamics                     3-0-0-6

Syllabus: Steam power plant – reheat, regenerative steam power cycles, low temperature power cycles, ideal working fluid and binary/multi-fluid cycles; Types of boilers and their attachments, steam turbine types and analysis using velocity triangles, properties of moist air: psychrometry and psychrometric charts, condensers and cooling towers; IC engines – SI, CI, two- and four-stroke engines, MEP, efficiency and specific fuel consumption, conventional and alternative fuels, pressure-crank angle diagram, carburettor and fuel injection systems; Gas turbine engines – types of gas turbine engines, reheat, intercooling and regenerative cycles, combined cycles, introduction to jet propulsion; Compressors and turbines – reciprocating air compressors: work transfer, volumetric efficiency, isothermal efficiency, multistage compression with intercooling, centrifugal compressor, axial flow compressors, axial flow turbines.

Texts:

1. F. C Rogers and Y. R. Mayhew, Engineering Thermodynamics Work and Heat Transfer, Pearson, 2003.
2. D. Eastop and A. McConkey, Applied Thermodynamics for Engineering Technologists, Pearson, 2003.

References:

1. M. El-Wakil, Power Plant Technology, McGraw Hill International, 1992.
2. K. Nag, Powerplant Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill, 2002.
3. W. Pulkrabek, Engineering Fundamentals of the Internal Combustion Engine, PHI, 2002.

H. I. H. Saravanamuttoo, G. F. C. Rogers and H. Cohen, Gas Turbine Theory, Pearson, 2003.