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Home > Curriculum > Energy Engineering |
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| Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer |
| Fluids flow fundamentals and properties of fluids; Ideal fluid - Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids; Fluid viscosity; Forces acting on a fluid element; Viscous and body forces; Path lines, streamlines and streak lines; Vorticity and stream function; Potential flow and Bernoulli's equation; Kelvin circulation theorem; Integral approach and the control volume; Modes of heat transfer - Conduction, Convection and Radiation;
Thermo-physical properties of substances relevant to studies in heat transfer; Dimensional analysis and non-dimensional groups and their relevance in fluid flow and heat transfer; One-dimensional steady conduction and typical exact solutions to heat conduction equation; Transient analysis of lumped systems; Concept of no slip, the velocity and thermal boundary layer over a flat plate; The integral method - skin friction, pressure and form drags; Heat transfer and the Nusselt number; Correlations for turbulent flow - External flows and flow separation; Fully developed flow and heat transfer in pipe flow; Laminar and turbulent cases with useful correlations; Heat exchanger types and analysis; LMTD and Effectiveness - NTU methods; Blackbody radiation fundamentals; Surface properties; Analysis of radiation among diffuse surfaces; View factors; Radiosity, Irradiation method - simple cases; Basics of condensation and boiling heat transfer. |
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| Fundamentals of Combustion |
| Fuels and their properties; Review of basic thermodynamics and gaseous mixtures; Combustion Thermodynamics; Stoichiometry; First and Second Laws of Thremodynamics applied to combustion; Composition products in equilibrium; Fundamentals of combustion kinetics; General characteristics of combustion flame and detonation; Laminar flame propagation; Flammability limits and quenching of laminar flames; Ignition, Turbulent flame propagation; Flame stabilization, Gas jets and combustion of gaseous fuel jets; Vaporization and Combustion of liquid fuel droplet; Combustion of a coal particle. |
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| Burners, Furnaces and Boilers |
Burners - Classification; Principles and operation vaporizing burners, rotary cup burners; flame stability, pilot burner, burner tiles; Noise and soot control, pollutant formation and methods of reduction, low NOX burners; Components of burners - nozzles, pumps, pre-heaters, fans, regulators, igniter; Burner controls; Calculations for stoichiometry, air fuel ratios; Sizing of flow system and burner nozzles.Furnaces - Heat requirements, losses, heat of reaction; Confinement and storage of heat; Draft, chimneys, modes of heating, preheat, recuperation and regeneration; Refractories - classification and properties, insulating materials, calculation of insulation thickness; Direct - kiln and metal melting - and indirect - tube heater, muffles, ovens, crucible - furnaces; Design of muffle; Blast furnace, cupola, rotary kiln and cyclone furnaces, overfeed, traveling and underfeed stokers, electric furnaces, incinerators. Boilers - Properties of water and steam, latent heat, superheat, critical conditions. Classification of boilers - water tube, fire tube, flash; mechanism of flash vaporization; sub-critical and supercritical boilers; fluidized bed, choice of fuels; insulation, modes of heat transfer, current trends; Design procedures, scale-up; Feed water treatment, fouling, waste heat recovery; Steam generator for peak loads.
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| Renewable Energy Technologies |
| Solar energy - Sources and potential, Measurement and collection, flat plate collectors,
concentrating collectors, solar ponds, photovoltaic conversion, solar thermal power plants; Thermal energy storage - Technologies based on Sensible heat, Latent Heat and
Chemical Reaction; Ocean energy - Sources and potential, Principles of OTEC, wave and tidal energy conversion systems; Wind Energy - Sources and potential, Wind characteristics, National wind atlas, Types of wind turbines and their characteristics; Biofuels - Sources and potential, Properties and characterization, Biogas generation
through aerobic and anaerobic digestion, Thermo chemical methods of bio-fuel utilization; Geothermal energy - Sources and potential, Nature, types and utilization; Hydrogen energy - Sources and potential, Fundamentals of production, distribution and storage of hydrogen for automotive and stand-alone applications; Fuel cells - Fundamentals and types.
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| Thermal Energy Conservation and Audit |
| Basic principles of energy conservation; Energy analysis and application of laws of thermodynamics; Energy consumption and rejection patterns for different thermal processes such as air-conditioning, drying, steam generation, thermal power generation, etc; Energy conservation potential in different thermal processes; Types and applications of different energy recovery equipments such as runaround coils, regenerators, recuperators, economisers, heat pipe heat exchangers, plate heat exchangers, heat pumps, steam accumulators, storage boilers, waste heat boilers, etc; Thermal insulation and its role in energy conservation; Cogeneration & tri-generation technologies; Thermal energy audit; Basic principles, instruments and methods; Case studies for different industries - Assignments. |
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| Project Work |
| Project Work will be of six months duration udner the guidance of IIT professors and BHEL engineers. Selection and assignment of projects will be done by students, faculty from IIT Madras and BHEL specialists. Project selection will focus on practical applications of theoretical techniques and methods taught as part of the curriculum. BHEL's specialists in energy engineering will be appointed as project guides for each student. |
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