APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS Syllabus — Government College of Engineering a…
Full syllabus, topics and curated resources for APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS (Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu).
Combustion, steam generators, steam nozzles, condensers, vapour power cycles and centrifugal compressors
- Subject code: MET5403
- University: Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Course: BE (2022 onwards)
- Branch: ME
- Semester: 4
APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS syllabus
Unit 1: Thermodynamics of Combustion in Boilers and IC Engines
- Principle of Combustion
- Stoichio-metric and non-stoichiometeric combustion
- Combustion Problems in boilers & IC Engines
- Calculations of air fuel ratio
- Analysis of products of combustion
- conversion of volumetric analysis into gravimetric analysis and vice versa
- Actual weight of air supplied
- Heat of formation; Enthalpy of formation
- Various stages of combustion in IC Engines
Unit 2: Steam generators
- Classification
- Modern steam generators
- boiler mounting and accessories
- Boiler performance
- Boiler draught and chimneys calculations
Unit 3: Steam Nozzles
- Definition, types and utility of nozzles
- Flow of steam through nozzles
- Condition for maximum discharge through nozzle
- Critical pressure ratio, its significance and its effect on discharge
- Areas of throat and at exit for maximum discharge
- Effect of friction
- Nozzle efficiency
- Convergent and Convergent-divergent nozzles
- Calculation of Nozzle dimensions (length and diameters of throat and exit)
- Supersaturated (or metastable) flow through nozzle
Unit 4: Steam Condensers
- Elements of condensing unit
- Types of condensers
- Dalton's law of partial pressures applied to the condenser problems
- Condenser and vacuum efficiencies
- cooling water calculations
- Effect of air leakage
- Method to check and prevent air infiltration
- Description of air pump and calculation of its capacity
- Cooling towers: function, types and their operation
Unit 5: Vapour Power Cycle
- Carnot Cycle and its limitations
- Rankine steam power cycle, Ideal and actual
- Mean temperature of heat addition
- Effect of pressure, temperature and vacuum on Rankine Efficiency
- Rankine Cycle Efficiency and methods of improving Rankine efficiency
- Reheat cycle
- Bleeding(feed-water-heating), Regenerative Cycle
- combined reheat-regenerative cycle
- Ideal working fluid
- Binary vapour cycle
- Combined power and heating cycles
Unit 6: Centrifugal Compressor
- Principle, components, complete thermodynamics analysis
- isentropic and Isothermal efficiencies
- work done and pressure rise
- Velocity vector diagrams for centrifugal compressors and power calculation
- pre-guide vanes and pre-whirl
- slip factor
- power input factor
- degree of reaction and its derivation
- energy transfer in backward, forward and radial vanes