Hydraulics Lab detailed syllabus for Automobile Engineering (AE) for 2015 revision curriculum has been taken from the SITTTRs official website and presented for the AE 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 3rd Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit AE 3rd Sem 2015 revision scheme. The detailed syllabus of hydraulics lab is as follows.
GENERAL COURSE OUTCOME
- Understand the pipe friction apparatus.
- Understand the Orifice apparatus
- Appreciate the Notch apparatus (Rectangular, triangular & trapezoidal)
- Appreciate the Bernoullis theorem
- Appreciate the venturimeter
- Understand the minor losses in pipes.
- Understand the working of centrifugal pump & reciprocating pump
SPECIFIC COURSE OUTCOME MODULE I
- Use Bernoulli’s theorem apparatus.
- Apply and verify Bernoulli’s Theorem
- Determine the discharge measurement through orifice and notches and to plot the curve between Co efficient of Discharge (Cd) and Discharge (Q).
MODULE II
- Calculate the co efficient of discharge(Cd) using venturimeter and plot the curve between and Head(H)
- Use the pipe friction apparatus to determine the coefficient of friction
MODULE III
- Study the various turbines
- Find the efficiency of various turbines
- Plot the characteristic curves
MODULE IV
- Conduct experiment and find out hydraulic efficiency and overall efficiency of centrifugal pump and reciprocating pump
- Plot the characteristic curves
MODULE I
- Verify the Bernoulli’s theorem using the apparatus
- Conduct the tests on orifice and notches
- Determine the coefficient of discharge of different orifices and notches
- Calibrate the notches and orifices.
MODULE II
- Conduct the test on Venturimeter.
- Determine the coefficient of discharge of the Venturimeter.
- Conduct the test on pipe friction apparatus.
- Determine the friction factor using Darcy’s formulae of pipes of varying cross section .
- Plot TEL and HEL.
MODULE III
- Conduct the tests on Pelton turbine, Francis turbine and Kaplan turbine.
- Operate the turbines.
- Calculate the brake power and overall efficiency.
- Plot the various characteristic curves.
MODULE IV
- Conduct the tests on centrifugal pump and reciprocating pumps.
- Operate the pumps
- Caculate the various efficiency of the pumps
- Plot the various characteristics curves
Reference Books:
- K C John – Fluid mechanic laboratory experiments – PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd
- T.S. Desmukh – Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines (A Lab Manual) – Laxmi Publications Pvt Limited
- S.K.Likhi – Hydraulics Laboratory Manual – New age imternational
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