ME 1504 : THERMAL ENGINEERING 

Syllabus

Module I 
Fuels and combustion – Solid, liquid and gaseous fuels – calorific value – calorimeter – combustion equation – Air – Fuel ratio gravimetric & volumetric analysis – excess air Enthalpy and Internal Energy of Combustion – application of first law of thermodynamics to chemical reaction (combustion), adiabatic flame temperature – application of second law of thermodynamics to chemical reaction. 
Module II 
Air standard cycles, Otto, Diesel, Dual, Brayton, Stirling cycles. Actual cycles of four stroke and two stroke IC Engines, valve timing diagram – Engine testing – Performance and characteristics of constant speed and variable speed engines – heat balance test – Morse test – retardation test – effect of dissociation – variable specific heads and heat losses – scavenging – objectives – effects and methods – Efficiencies (thermal, mechanical and volumetric 
efficiencies) 
Module III 
Systems and components of IC Engines – fuel systems – Ignition systems – Cooling – starting – lubrication – governing of IC engines – super charging of SI and CI Engines – turbo charging – exhaust emissions of IC engines –alternate Potential Engines – free piston engines – Wankel Engine and Stratified charged engine automotive transmission system and its components. 
Module IV 
Combustion in IC engines – flame propagation normal and abnormal combustion detonation – Pre ignition – after burning – HUCR – fuel rating – additives in petrol – combustion chambers of SI engines – combustion in CI engines – phase of normal combustion diesel knock – effect of engine variables on diesel knock – cetane number – additives in diesel – combustion chambers of CI engines. 
References: 
 1) Cengel and Boles, Thermodynamics- An Engineering Approach, Tata McGraw Hill 
 2) M.I. Mallev, Internal Combustion Engines 
 3) Engineering Thermodynamics Bacon, Butterworth 
 4) Elements of Internal Combustion Engine Rogowsky, Tata McGraw Hill 
 5) Fundamentals of Internal Combustion EnginesGill, Smith & Ziurys, Oxford 
 6) Modern Petrol Engine Judge, Chapman & Hall
 7) Applied Thermodynamics for Engineering Technology sts- T.D Eastop , A Mc Conkey 
 Pearson Education 
Type of Questions for University Exam.
Q 1.Eight short answer questions of 5 marks with two questions from each of the four modules. (8x5 = 40 marks) 
Q 2. to Q.5 : Two questions A & B of 15 marks from each modules with option to answer either A or B. (4x15 = 60 marks)