AKTU Applied Thermodynamics (BME401) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech 2nd Year

Course Objectives

CO1: To learn about Air Standard Cycle.

CO2: To learn about of I law for reacting systems and heating value of fuels.

CO3: To learn about gas and vapor cycles CO4: To learn about gas dynamics of air flow and steam through nozzles.

CO5: To analyze the performance of steam turbines.

UNIT I

Introduction to Air Standard Cycle- Otto, Diesel and Dual cycles and analysis, Introduction to Turbocharger & Supercharger.

UNIT II

Vapour Power cycles:

Vapor power cycles Rankine cycle with superheat, reheat and regeneration, exergy analysis. Rankine cycle, effect of pressure and temperature on Rankine cycle, Reheat cycle, Regenerative cycle, Feed water heaters, Binary vapour cycle, Combined cycles, Cogeneration.

Fuels and Combustion: Combustion analysis, heating values, air requirement, Air/Fuel ratio, standard heat of reaction and effect of temperature on standard heat of reaction, heat of formation, Adiabatic flame temperature.

UNIT III

Boilers: Classifications and working of boilers, boiler mountings and accessories, Draught and its calculations, air pre-heater, feed water heater, super heater. Boiler efficiency, Equivalent evaporation. Boiler trial and heat balance.

Condenser: Classification of condenser, air leakage, condenser performance parameters.

UNIT IV

Steam and Gas Nozzles: Flow through Convergent and convergent-divergent nozzles, variation of velocity, area and specific volume, choked flow, throat area, Nozzle efficiency, Off design operation of nozzle, Shock waves stationary normal shock waves, Effect of friction on nozzle, Super saturated flow.

Steam Turbines: Classification of steam turbine, Impulse and Reaction turbines, Staging, Stage and Overall efficiency, reheat factor, Bleeding, Velocity diagram of simple and compound multistage impulse and reaction turbines and related calculations, work done, efficiencies of reaction, Impulse reaction turbines, state point locus, Losses in steam turbines, Governing of turbines, Comparison with steam engine.

UNIT V

Gas Turbine: Gas turbine classification, Brayton cycle, Principles of gas turbine, Gas turbine cycles with intercooling, reheat and regeneration and their combinations, Stage efficiency, Polytropic efficiency. Deviation of actual cycles from ideal cycles.

Jet Propulsion: Introduction to the principles of jet propulsion, Turbojet and turboprop engines and their processes, Principle of rocket propulsion, Introduction to Rocket Engine.

Course Outcomes

• After completing this course, the students will get a good understanding of various practical power cycles and heat pump cycles.
• They will be able to analyze energy conversion in various thermal devices such as combustors, air coolers, nozzles, diffusers, steam turbines and reciprocating compressors.
• They will be able to understand phenomena occurring in high speed compressible flows.

Reference Books

1. Basic and Applied Thermodynamics by P.K. Nag, Mcgraw hill India.
2. Applied thermodynamics by Onkar Singh, New Age International.
3. Applied Thermodynamics for Engineering Technologists by Eastop, Pearson Education.
4. Applied Thermodynamics by Venkanna And Swati, PHI.
5. Sonntag, R. E, Borgnakke, C. and Van Wylen, G. J., 2003, 6th Edition, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, John Wiley and Sons.
6. Jones, J. B. and Duggan, R. E., 1996, Engineering Thermodynamics, Prentice-Hall of India
7. Moran, M. J. and Shapiro, H. N., 1999, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, John Wiley and Sons.
8. Theory of Stream Turbine by WJ Kear