5CH6.3-Energy Resources & Utilization |
Units: I |
Introduction: Synthetic fuels and their manufacture introduction and classification of fuels,
Fundamentals, Units and their conversions, Properties of coal, oil shale, and Tar Sands.
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Units: II |
Solid Fuels: Wood, Wood charcoal and Peat. Origin, Composition, Characteristics, and
Significance of constituents of coal, Petrography of coal, washing of coal, storage of coal.
Pulverised fuel/coal, Uses of coal, comparison of Solid, Liquid, and Gaseous fuels.
Selection of coal, Mineral matters in coal ash, and clinker formation; Properties and testing
of coal, Classification of coal, Carbonization of coal – coke making and byproducts
recovery, Characteristics and distribution of Indian coals, Briqueting of Solid fuel/coal. |
Units: III |
Liquid Fuels/Petroleum Refining : Origin, Composition, Classification, and constituents
of petroleum: Indian crudes, Processing of Crude oil:Distillation, Cracking- Thermal and
Catalytic, Reforming – Thermal and catalytic, Polymerisation, Alkylation, and
Isomerisation, Purification of Petroleum products, Antiknock value and Requisites of good
quality gasoline, diesel and fuel oil, Liquidfuels from coal by hydrogenation/ liquefaction,
other liquid fuels- Benzol, shale oil, alcohol, and colloidal fuels, Storage and Handling of
Liquid fuels/Fuel oils.
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Units: IV |
Gaseous Fuels : Methane, Wood Gas, Gobar gas, Sewage gas, Gas from underground
gasification of coal, Natural gas, LPG, Refinery gases, Producer gas, and Water gas.
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Units: V |
Furnaces: Introduction, Waste heat recovery in furnaces, Classification of furnaces.
Nuclear Fuels and their Utilization : Introduction, nuclear fuel resources in India, Nuclear
reactors – introduction, Classification of nuclear reactors, Types of nuclear reactors.
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Text/ Reference Books |
1. Gupta, O.P., “Fuels, Furnaces Refractories”, Khanna Publishers, Delhi 2000
2. Probstein, R.F. and Hicks, R.E., “Synthetic Fuels,” McGraw Hill, NY, 1985.
3. Sarkar, S., “Fuels and Combustion,” 2nd ed., Orient Longman, Bombay, 1990
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