This course aims to provide the basics of Thermodynamics as applied to Engineering practice. It covers system and surroundings, all thermodynamic laws and air standard gas cycles. Also, it gives the introduction about gas turbine, heat exchanger and internal combustion engine. It gives knowledge of entropy and its change in all the thermodynamic process.
The course aims to enable students to understand the fundamentals of engineering thermodynamics. The module covers the principle of selecting the appropriate energy sources, first and second law of thermodynamics and their applications on closed and open processes, Air standard cycles, analysis of thermodynamic properties of ideal or perfect gases and Internal combustion engine.
The module provides profound insights into the physics, technology and system design of solar cells, photovoltaic systems and solar thermal devices. Also, it deals with fuel cells technology and their applications.
The indicative content of the module is as follows:
SOLAR ENERGY
Unit 1: Solar radiation: Solar angles. Solar radiation. Solar resource
Unit 2: Radiation heat transfer: Ideal surface radiation. Real Surface Radiation. Radiation between surfaces.
Unit 3:Convection heat transfer: Flat plate. Internal Flow. Natural convection. Multimode heat transfer
Unit 4: Solar energy collectors: Flat plate collector. Thermal analysis. Compound Parabolic collector and evacuated tube collector.
Unit 5: Thermosolar power. Concentrating collector’s storage, hybrid systems. Industrial processes: solar desalination and solar drying.
Unit 6: Photovoltaic systems: Semiconductors, Types of PV Materials. Related equipment: power trackers. Efficiency.
Unit 7: PV Applications: Stand-alone/Direct-coupled/Grid connected system. Solar water heaters, solar dryers, solar cooker, designs, working principles, calculations of performance/ efficiency, heat loss. Solar PV systems: Basic ideas about solar Photo Voltaic (SPVS) systems, sizing a small SPVS: calculation of energy needs, power, energy, current, number of solar modules and batteries required for Households and Institutions
Unit 8: FUEL CELLS
Basic electrochemical principles of the hydrogen fuel cells, basic fuel cell design concepts,
Hydrogen production (Thermo chemical processes, water electrolysis, photo biological process)
Hydrogen storage, Thermoelectricity
How fuel cells are used for every day purposes: road, water and air transport vehicles, portable and stationary use.
The course aims to develop a fundamental knowledge of Production and Technology, to enable Mechanical Engineers to make correct and reasonable spare parts for various applications. It covers, the basics of Metal Casting processes, Metal forming processes, Sheet Metal Operations, and special welding. It also covers the machining process, Mechanics of Metal cutting, Forces acting on cutting tools and their measurement, Temperature in metal cutting, Multi-point tools, Gear cutting, Machines using abrasive wheels, and Tool characteristics.
The course aims to provide students with the fundamental principles of mechanisms in general, but the emphasis being put on plane mechanisms. It covers the determination of degree of freedom of simple plane mechanisms. It covers the kinematic analysis of a four link mechanisms, belt, gear, chain and cam drives. The course also covers the friction brakes and clutches.