Automotive Fuels and Combustion detailed Syllabus for Automobile Engineering (AUTO), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all other VTU AUTO 5th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU AUTO 5th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for automotive fuels and combustion is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Energy Sources: Exhaustible sources-crude oil, Natural gas, Inexhaustible sources-Solar energy, Wind power, Tidal Power, Geo-thermal power. Energy from Bio-gas, Synthetic fuels-Fuel Cells, Hydrogen-only a brief introduction. Liquid Fuels: Origin of petroleum, its chemistry, normal paraffin’s, iso-paraffins, olefins, naphthalene and aromatics. Refining of petroleum: Fractional distillation, Cracking, Reforming process, Thermal reforming, polymerization, alkylation, and isomerisation. Properties and tests : Specific Gravity, viscosity, flash and fire points, calorific value, rating of fuels, vapour pressure, cloud and pour point, annealing point, diesel index, carbon residue and ash content determination.
Module 2
(I.C) Engine fuels: Properties and rating of fuels, chemical energy of fuels, Reaction Equation, Properties of A/F mixture, combustion temp, combustion charts, Lead free gasoline’s, low and ultra-low sulphur diesels, LPG, CNG, Alcohols, Biodiesels, Gaseous Fuel Injections, Dual Fueling and Controls-CNG and Gasoline, Hydrogen and Diesel, Alcohols and Diesels etc. Combustion Equations: Combustion equation, conversion of gravimetric to volumetric analysis. Determination of theoretical minimum quantity of air for complete combustion. Determination of air fuel ratio for a given fuel. Numerical problems, flue gas analysis, gas Chromatograph.
Module 3
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Module 4
Engine Testing and Performance: Performance parameters, Basic measurements, Measurements of Speed, Fuel consumption, air consumption, brake power and different types of dynamometers, frictional power measurement by willam’s line method, Morse test and other methods, indicated power, blow by measurement, performance maps, and heat balance and related numerical.
Module 5
Dual fuel and Multi-fuel Engines: Combustion in dual fuel engines, Factor affecting combustion. Main types of gaseous fuels, Supercharge knock control & Performance of diesel fuel engines. Characteristics of multi fuel engines, Modification of fuel system, suitability of various engines as multi fuel unit, performance of multi fuel engines.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
he question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks. ach full question will be for 20 marks. here will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each mod ule.
Text Books:
- I. C. Engines Mathur& Sharma Dhanpat Rai& Sons, New Delhi 1994
- Fuels & Combustion S. P. Sharma & Chandra Mohan Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi 1987
Reference Books:
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For detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE 5th Sem Automobile Engineering, visit (AUTO) 5th Sem Syllabus Subjects.
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