Thermal Engineering

Unit-I Gas Power Cycles 10

Terminology used in IC engine, Air standard analysis - Carnot cycle - Otto cycle - Diesel cycle -
Dual cycle - Lenoir and Stirling cycle IC Engines: Classification- Principle and working of four stroke
and two stroke petrol and diesel engines

Unit-II Combustion Engineering and Testing 10

Combustion process- Knocking, Detonation, Cetane and Octane numbers Combustion in SI and CI
engines, Testing of IC engines- Constant speed and variable speed tests, Methods of estimating
indicated power, brake power, volumetric efficiency, Heat balance test

Unit-III Air Compressors 10

Single stage reciprocating compressor- Working principle, Effect of clearance on volumetric

efficiency, Multistage reciprocating compressors: Working principle - Inter-cooler Performance of
multi-stage compressor. Rotary compressor: Vane compressor, Screw compressor and lobe
compressor

Unit-IV Psychrometry 10

Psychrometry and Psychrometric charts, Psychrometric process – Sensible heat exchange processes.
Latent heat exchange processes. Adiabatic mixing, Evaporative cooling.

Unit-V Air Conditioning 8

Requirements for comfort and industrial air-conditioning - Summer and winter air conditioning
systems, Air handling and distribution system.

Total hours 48

TEXT BOOKS:

1 Mahesh M. Rathore, “Thermal Engineering”, Mc Graw Hill Education private limited, Reprint
2016.

2 Kothandaraman.C.P, Domkundwar.S, AnandDomkundwar, “A Course in Thermal Engineering”,

Dhanpat Rai & Co. (P) Ltd., 2010

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1 Rudramoorthy R, Tata McGraw Hill Publishers Co. Ltd., New Delhi, 2011

2 Ganesan V, Internal Combustion Engine; Tata McGraw Hill Publishers Co. Ltd., New Delhi, 2012

3 Arora C.P. “Refrigeration and Air Conditioning” Tata McGraw Hill, 2008

Web References:

1 http://nptel.ac.in/courses/112104033/

2 http://nptel.ac.in/courses/112105128/
 Heat and Mass Transfer

Unit-I Introduction 10

Mechanism of Heat Transfer – Conduction, Convection and Radiation, Fourier Law of Conduction.

Unit-II Conduction 10

General Differential equation of Heat Conduction- Cartesian and Cylindrical Coordinates, 1-D Steady
State Heat Conduction through Plane Wall, Cylinders and Spherical systems, Composite Systems
(Simple problems), Conduction with Internal Heat Generation, Extended Surfaces (Simple problems),
Unsteady Heat Conduction – Lumped Analysis – Use of Heisler’s Chart Forced and Natural

Unit-III Convection 10

Heat Transfer Coefficients – Boundary Layer Concept, External Flow – Flow over Plates, Cylinders
and Spheres, Internal Flow, Phase Change Heat Transfer: Nusselt's theory of condensation, Pool
boiling, Flow boiling, Regimes of boiling.

Unit-IV Heat Exchangers 10

Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient, Fouling Factors including conduction and convection resistances,
Heat Exchanger Analysis – LMTD & NTU methods Radiation: Laws of Radiation, Black and Grey
body radiation, shape factor algebra, Electrical Analogy, Radiation Shields.

Unit-V Mass transfer 8

Diffusion Mass Transfer – Fick’s Law of Diffusion, Steady state Molecular Diffusion, Convective
Mass Transfer – Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer Analogy.

TEXT BOOKS:
1 Yunus.A.Cengel, Afstin J.Ghajar, “Heat and Mass Transfer – Fundamentals and Applications”,
McGraw Hill, Fifth Edition, 2016.
2 Incropera, F. P. and De Witt, D. P., “Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer”, 5th Edition, John
Wiley and Sons, New York, 2011.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1 Sachdeva R C, “Fundamentals of Engineering Heat and Mass Transfer” New Age International,
2010
2 Nag P.K, “Heat and Mass Transfer”, McGraw-Hill, 2011.
3 Holman J.P “Heat and Mass Transfer”, McGraw-Hill, 2010.
4 Kothandaraman C.P “Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer” New Age International, New
Delhi, 2012

WebReferences
1 www.academia.edu/.../Frank_P_Incropera_Fundamentals_of_heat_and_mass_transfer
2 http://165.165.123.124:444/Mechanical%20Engineering%20%2825%29/Heat%20 and
%20Mass%20Transfer/