Renewable and Non-renewable resources - thermal, hydel, solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and nuclear - Indian energy scenario. 14 Power Plants - Steam, gas turbine, diesel, nuclear and hydel power plants - Layout, major components and working, Choice of the type of plant, Combined cycles, cogeneration, Importance of Energy storage, Environmental constraints of power generation using fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Steam generators - Classification, working or Cochran, Babcock Wilcox, Lamont and Benson boilers, Principles and features of modern high pressure boiler - tower type boilers. (A separate study of boiler mountings and accessories are beyond the scope of this course).
Refrigeration - application and types, Vapour compression refrigeration system - working principles and features, working fluids. Air conditioning - requirement of conditioned air, summer and winter air conditioning, layout of a typical window air conditioner, Thermoelectric cooling.
Refrigeration - application and types, Vapour compression refrigeration system - working principles and features, working fluids. Air conditioning - requirement of conditioned air, summer and winter air conditioning, layout of a typical window air conditioner, Thermoelectric cooling.
Metal forming - Principles of forging - mechanical power hammers - Hot and Cold forging processes - rolling, drawing and extrusion, Metal joining processes - flexible and permanent, Principles of welding - Fundamentals of arc welding, gas welding and gas cutting, Brazing and Soldering
Brief introduction to belt and rope drives. Simple and compound gear trains. Machine Tool Engineering - Main Components and functions of lathe, drilling, shaping, planning and milling machines. Introduction to CAD, CAM, CIM and ROBOT.
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1. Taylor, Introduction to Marine engineering, 2 nd Edition, Butterworth Heinemann, London, 1999 2. Shanmugam.G., Basic Mechanical Engineering 3rd Edition, TATA McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, Year 2000