Energy Systems I (ME301A)
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First Semester, 2017 18
Venue: L3, Time: WF: 11 a.m. 12 noon
Instructor: Santanu De, NL 1, Room No. 302, Ph: 6478, Email: sde@[Link]
Office hours: W 5:30 6:30 p.m. or by appointment
Teaching Assistants: Saurabh (saugupta@), Arihant (arihantb@), Saransh (saransha@)
TA office hours: F 5 6:30 p.m. or by appointment, CFD laboratory (NL-1, 302)
General introduction:
The course will cover primarily four modules: fuels and combustion, internal combustion engines,
power plant engineering, air-conditioning and refrigeration. The fundamental principles and
practical applications will be covered with examples. The systems will be analyzed largely from
thermodynamic viewpoint. The course will not cover individual equipment of an energy system. At
the end of this course, one will be able to (i) understand the underlying principles of energy
conversion, (ii) perform simple calculations based on steady state analysis of practical energy
systems.
Textbooks:
SR Turns Introduction to Combustion
P K Nag Power Plant Engineering
Heywood Internal Combustion Engines
CP Arora Refrigeration and air- conditioning
Additional resource materials: Will be supplied from time to time in the class/ course website.
Questions may be asked from these materials.
Grading policy:
Attendance 5%,
HW (at least 4) 10%,
Quizzes (2 quizzes 45 min each + surprise quizzes) 15%,
Midsem (first 2 modules, 2 hrs) 25%,
Endsem (full syllabus, 3 hrs) 40%
All exams will be closed book; HWs need be submitted on or before the last date.
Following marks will be awarded for attendance: 90% and above attendance 5% marks; 80
90% attendance 3% marks; 70 80% attendance 1% marks.
Make-up policy: There will be provision for making-up only one missed exam (either midsem or
endsem) during the designated make-up exam period after the endsem only if your leave of absence
is approved by the SUGC on medical ground. The make-up exams are expected to be tougher than
the regular exams and will be based on the full syllabus. No make-up exam will be conducted for
declared/surprise quiz. No prorating except for some extra-ordinary cases with medical emergency.
Academic integrity: Cheating/copying/plagiarism or any other academic dishonesty in any
exams/quiz/HW will ensure F grade with a permanent record in the personal file. Serious cases
may also be reported to the senate for further actions.
Attendance policy: Compulsory attendance. At any point of time, students with less than 70%
attendance will be automatically recommended for deregistration. No warning will be issued.
Lecture-wise break-up (tentative)
Hour Topic
1 Introduction, energy, different forms of energy, grades of energy
2 Fossil fuels petroleum, coal, biomass, biofuels, synthetic fuels;
Combustion thermodynamics - ideal gas law, mixing of gases, first-law for a
System and CV, reactants and products, A/F ratio, enthalpy of formation,
heating value
3 Fuels and combustion First law analysis of combustion system SSSF and
Closed systems, example problem, enthalpy of reaction, enthalpy of
combustion, example problem
4 Adiabatic flame temperature, chemical equilibrium, equilibrium constant
5 Chemical kinetics, elementary reaction, law of mass action, order of a
reaction
6 Quasi-steady-state approximation, partial equilibrium approximation,
example problems
7 IC engines recap- power cycles, Carnot cycle, Joule-Brayton cycle, Air-
Standard cycles, Otto cycle, Diesel cycle, Dual cycle, comparison, Stirling
Cycle, Ericsson cycle
8 IC engines fuel air cycles, example problems
9 IC engines classification of IC engines, basic components of IC engine,
Operation sequence of a 4 stroke SI engines
10 IC engines Operation sequence of a 4 stroke CI engine, Two stroke engines,
Comparisons
11 IC engines Actual power cycles, different losses
12 IC engines volumetric efficiency, valve-timing diagrams, engine
performance
13 IC engines engine performance contd., numerical examples.
14 Power plant Rankine cycle, superheated cycle, super-critical Rankine cycle,
numerical problem
15 Power plant Reheating Optimum reheat pressure, ideal regeneration
16 Power plant real regeneration, open and closed water heater
17 Power plant Example, Optimum degree of regeneration
18 Power plant Non water power cycle, binary cycle, cascading, combined
Cycle, performance improvement, example
19 Power plant Equipment in a power plant, fire tube boiler, water tube
boilers,
Moisture separation, fluidized bed boilers, cooling tower
20 Power plant Non-conventional power plants, hydroelectric, wind power,
tidal power, solar photovoltaic, nuclear power plants, concentrated solar
thermal power plants, energy storage
21 Air-conditioning and refrigeration Reverse Carnot cycle, vapour-
Compression refrigeration cycle,casecading
22 Air-conditioning and refrigeration multi-staging, numerical example
23 Air-conditioning and refrigeration Absorption refrigeration cycles, Air-craft
Refrigeration and air conditioning
24 Air- conditioning and refrigeration-Different parameters for condition of air,
Dew point, WBT, Psychrometric chart
25 Air-conditioning and refrigeration numerical example, Psychrometric
Processes, mixing of streams
26 Air-conditioning and refrigeration winter and summer air condition
Numerical example
