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UNIT II AIR-CONDITIONING 12
Air-conditioning processes, Requirements for comfort and industrial air-conditioning, air washer, By-pass
factor, summer and winter air conditioning systems, apparatus dew point, sensible heat factor, balancing of
components, cooling load calculation-Estimation of cooling or heating load for building, Application-window
type, split, package and centralized AC.

UNIT III STEAM NOZZLE AND STEAM TURBINE 12
Types and Shapes of nozzles, Flow of steam through nozzles, Critical pressure ratio, Variation of mass flow
rate with pressure ratio. Effect of friction. Metastable flow.
Types, Impulse and reaction principles, Velocity diagrams, Work done and efficiency – optimal operating
conditions. Multi-staging, compounding and governing

UNIT IV COMPRESSORS 12
Reciprocating compressor - Working principle-effect of clearance on volumetric efficiency, equations for
shaft work and efficiencies, Multi-Stage Compression, inter-cooler, optimum intermediate pressure in a two
stage compressor. Rotary compressor - Rotary positive displacement compressor- types-Roots Blower,
Sliding Vane Compressor, Screw Compressor. Performance calculations.

UNIT V GAS TURBINES 12
Gas turbine cycle analysis – open and closed cycle. Performance and its improvement - Regenerative,
Intercooled, Reheated cycles and their combinations. Materials for Turbines.

TOTAL: 60 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:
Upon successful completion of this course the students will be able to
 Understand the working of various types of Refrigeration systems.
 Familiarize about Air- conditioning systems and perform cooling load calculations to determine
heating loads.
 Understand the working of steam nozzle and turbine also analyzes their performance.
 Calculate the various efficiencies of the air compressors.
 Understand the working of Gas turbines and their performance.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Sarao.A.S, “Thermal Engineering” , Satyaprakasan, New Delhi, 2016.
2. Rudramoorthy R, "Thermal Engineering", Tata McGraw Hill Publishers Co. Ltd.,
New Delhi, 2003.

REFERENCES:
1. Arora.C.P, “Refrigeration and Air conditioning”, McGraw Hills, New Delhi, 2017.
2. Kothandaraman.C.P and Domkundwar S, "Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering", DhanpatRai
and Sons, New Delhi, 2016.
3. Rajput.R.K, “Thermal Engineering”, Laxmi Publications (P) Limited, New Delhi, 10th Edition, 2017.
4. Sutton, G.P. “Rocket Propulsion Elements”, John Wiley, 8th edition 2010, New York.
5. Yahya, S.M., “Fundamentals of Compressible Flow with Aircraft and Rocket propulsion”, New Age
International (P) Limited, 4th Edition, 2012.
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ME17604 HYDRAULICS AND PNEUMATICS
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OBJECTIVES:

 To learn the concepts of fluidics and fundamentals of the system.
 To learn the components of fluid power system and its application.
 To learn and understand the systems of Hydraulic circuits.

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