Water Tube & Fire Tube boilers, Circulating Principles, Forced Circulation, Critical pressure, Superheaters,
Reheaters, attemperators, induced draught, forced draught and secondary air Fans, Boiler performance
analysis and heat balance. Combustion Systems, Environmental Protection – ESP, Cyclone Separator, Dust
Collector etc.
Rotary Thermodynamic devices – Steam turbines & their classifications – Impulse & Reaction type
Turbines, Thermodynamics of compressible fluid-flow, equation and continuity – Isentropic flow through
nozzles, velocity diagram, Blade efficiency, optimum velocity ratio, multi-staging, velocity & pressure
compounding, losses in turbines, erosion of turbine blades, turbine governing, performance analysis of
turbine, Condensing system.
IC Engines – classification. Analysis of a standard cycle, fuel characteristic of SI & CI Engine,
Combustion, Engine performance. Automotive Engine exhaust emission and their control.
Gas turbine Analysis – Regeneration - Reheating, Isentropic efficiency. Combustion efficiency.