Fuels and Lubricants detailed syllabus for Automobile Engineering (AUTO) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the AUTO students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Automobile Engineering 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit AUTO 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of fuels and lubricants is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
REFINERY OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS 9 Introduction to Structure of petroleum, refining Process-Distillation, cracking processes, Catalytic reforming, alkylation, isomerisation and polymerization, finishing process- blending, products of refining process. Manufacture of lubricating oil base stocks, manufacture of finished automotive lubricants.
Unit II
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Unit III
LUBRICANTS 9 Specific requirements for automotive lubricants, oxidation deterioration and degradation of lubricants, additives and additive mechanism, synthetic lubricants, classification of lubricating oils, properties of lubricating oils, tests on lubricants. Grease, classification, properties, test used in grease- lubricants for gearbox, brake, differential and steering systems
Unit IV
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Unit V
TESTING INSTRUMENTS 9 Working principles and types – viscometers, calorimeters, flash and fire point apparatus, cloud and pour point apparatus, distillation apparatus, penetrometer, carbon residue apparatus, CFR engine, vapour pressure testing equipment, copper strip equipment, Aniline point apparatus -Ash content testing equipment – specifications of fuels. ASTM and SAE standards – FTIR-GCMS analysers
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Ganesan.V., Internal Combustion Engines, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., New Delhi, 2017
- George E. Totten, Editor, Fuels and Lubricants Handbook: Technology, Properties, Performance, and Testing, ASTM International.
Reference Books:
- Paul Richards Automotive fuels reference book SAE International, Third edition 2014
- Roger Frederick Haycock, John Hillier,61Arthur J. Caines Automotive lubricants Reference book, SAE International, Second edition 2004
- Wilfrid Francis- Fuels and Fuel Technology, Vol. I & II
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Automobile Engineering, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit AUTO 4th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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