Syllabus

Course Code: MTTH-102    Course Name: Advanced Internal Combustion Engines

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Cycle Analysis: Fuel-air cycles, variable specific heats, dissociation, effect of operating variables, comparison with air standard cycle. Actual cycles, time and heat loss factors, exhaust blow down, comparison of real engine cycle and fuel air cycle, availability analysis of engine processes.
Thermochemistry of fuel-air mixtures: composition of air and fuels, first law and second law applied to combustion, unburned mixture composition, combustion charts
2 Heat Transfer: Heat transfer and engine energy balance, parameters affecting heat transfer, convective and radiative heat transfer, measurement of instantaneous heat transfer rate, thermal loading.
Gas Exchange Processes: flow through valves and ports, exhaust gas flow rate, scavenging in two stroke engines, scavenging models, actual scavenging processes, supercharging and turbocharging, types and methods of supercharging, basic relationships, compressors, turbines, wave-compression devices, effects and limitations, charge cooling.
3 Combustion: combustion in SI engines, thermodynamic analysis of SI engine combustion, burned and unburned mixture states, flame structure and speed, cycle variations, spark ignition, abnormal combustion, combustion in CI engines, types, CI engine combustion model, analysis of cylinder pressure data, fuel spray behavior, ignition delay, mixing controlled combustion.
4 Fuel Injection: fuel injection systems, mechanism of spray formation, electronic injection systems, MPFI system, feedback systems, flow in intake manifolds, design requirements.
Pollution Formation and Control: trends in vehicle emission standards, unburned hydrocarbon emissions, nitrogen oxides, CO, particulate emissions, exhaust gas treatment, non-exhaust emissions.
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