Mechanical
Power Engineering
Third Year
MEP 301 Numerical
Methods in Energy Sciences (3+3)
Mathematical models-
solution of linear simultaneous algebraic equations - solution of nonlinear
equations - Curve fitting, Second - order differential equation and examples-
Numerical solution using finite differences- Applications in Energy sciences.
MEP 302 Applied
Thermodynamics (3+1)
Second Law Analysis of
Actual Thermodynamic Processes - Thermodynamic Analysis of Steam Power Plants
Cycles - Introduction to Refrigeration - Introduction to Internal Combustion
Engines - Introduction to Gas Turbines and Jet Engines- Reciprocating and
Positive Displacement Compressors
MEP 303 (A&B) Fluid
Dynamics (3+2)
Differential equations
of continuity, linear and angular momentum- Incompressible inviscid flow -
Boundary layer flow - Flow around submerged bodies- Lift and drag- Compressible
flow -Pumps and positive displacement machines .
MEP 304 Heat and Mass
Transfer (3+2)
General equation of
conduction - One - dimensional steady state conduction - Steady state
conduction with internal heat generation - Steady conduction with variable
thermal conductivity - Fins and extended surfaces - Unsteady conduction -
Fundamental concepts of convection - Dimensionless groups - Natural convection
correlations - Forced convection correlations - Heat exchangers; types of heat
exchangers, logarithmic temperature difference, heat exchanger effectiveness -
Boiling heat transfer - Condensation heat transfer - Radiation heat transfer;
fundamental concepts and basic laws for thermal radiation, heat exchange by
thermal radiation and radiation from gases and flames - Mass transfer; basic
laws and applications for mass transfer.
MEP 305 Mechanical
Engineering Laboratories (2+3)
Lectures : Basic Concepts and
Analysis of Experimental Data - Electrical Measurements and sensing
Devices - Measurements of Pressure and Flow Rates - Measurements of
Temperature and Thermal Transport Properties - Measurements of Force, Torque,
Strain , Displacement, Length and Area.
Laboratory : Pressure and Flow
Measurements : Manometers, Pressure Gauge, Pitot Tube, Venturi, Orifice,
Nozzle, Flow Meters - Temperature Measurements : Thermometers, Thermocouples-
Viscosity Measurements- Calorific Value Measurements - Measurements of Heat
Transfer by Conduction, Forced Convection and Radiation - Flow around Immersed
Bodies.
MEP 308 Fundamentals of
Combustion (3+2)
Fuel Types and
Properties - Chemically Reacting System - Mass Conservation - Chemical
Kinetics- Chemical Equilibrium and Dissociation - Introduction to Flame
Types and Theory.
GEN 313 Economics and
Project Management (3+2)
Total annual cost -
Annual fixed cost - Sources of capital - Interest and cash flow diagram -
Depreciationa - Annual operating costs - Methods of economic selection -
Capacity probability analysis - Optimum Solutions and operations research -
Linear programming - The transportation problem - The assignment problem - Project
scheduling - project management.
Fourth Year
MEP 401 Conventional
Power Station (3+2)
Power stations
classification - Steam power plants; cycles and components - Gas power stations
(gas turbines) and Diesel power plants - Combined power cycles - Co-generation
concepts and systems - Hydroelectric power stations - Nuclear power stations -
Load analysis, storage and power plant economics - Power plant eficiency -
Power generation and environmental impact.
MEP 402 Refrigeration
and Air Conditioning (4+2)
Introduction and
applications - Mechanical vapour compression refrigeration - System components
- Refrigerants - Air refrigeration systems - Absorption refrigeration - Water
vapour refrigeration - Air conditioning systems - Air conditioning loads -
Psychrometric cycles; residential and industrial - Energy saving - Air
conditioning equipment.
MEP 403 Automatic Control
in Energy Systems (3+2)
Power systems : Basic principles -
System - Modeling design, simulation,analysis - Control systems - Transfer
functions - Closed loop - Reduction, response, classical method - Transitional
and steady state - Routh Hurwitz stability citerion- Bode Diagram - Frequency
response .
Automatic Control : Hydraulic control -
Hydraulic pumps & Motors Control valves - Transmission components of power
control - Pressure and flow valves- Introduction in fluid systems -
Applications in Mechanical power systems- Power generation - Refrigeration and
air conditioning- Heat exchangers.
MEP 404 Internal
Combustion Engines (3+1)
Principles of Power
Increase- Supercharging -Carburetor - Fuel Injection - Combustion in Spark
Ignition Engines - Combustion in Compression Engines - Performance
Characteristics.
MEP 405 Turbomachines
(3+2)
Basic Concepts and laws
of fluid machines - Similarity in fluid machines - One dimensional flow in
turbomachines- Two dimensional flow in blade groups - Three dimensional flow
in axial turbomachines - Hydraulic turbines - Pumps - Compressors - Steam turbines
- Gas turbines.
MEP 406 Heat Transfer
Equipment (3+2)
Introduction -
principles of heat exchangers design - Steam boilers; theory and design,
Superheaters, Reheaters, Economisers, Air preheaters, Condensers, Cooling
towers, Evaporators and Desalination units - Improvement of heat exchange
systems - Industrial heat exchangers - Operation and maintainance of heat
exchange equipment.
MEP 407 Mechanical Engineering
Laboratories ( 0+4)
Performance Tests on :
Spark Ignition Engine, Compression Ignition Engine , Reciprocating Compressor -
Combustion and Heat Transfer in a Fire Tube - Performance Tests on : Continuous
Combustion Unit, Centrifugal Pump, Axial Pump, Positive Displacement Pump,
Pelton Wheel, Chaplain Turbine, Steam Turbine, Gas Turbine, Turbocompressor,
Industrial Refrigeration Unit, Central Air Conditioning Unit, Heat Pump.
MEP 408 Combustion
Systems (3+1)
Flow and Mixing in
Combustion Zones - Types, Properties and Theories of Flames - Description and
Design of Combustion Systems in Boilers and Furnaces -Gas Turbine Combustion
Chambers - Internal Combustion Engines Combustion Chambers - Performance.
Minor
Elective Courses 1,2
Third
Year
MEP 341 - Tribology
MDP 314-1 - Machine Design
MDP 447 - Industrial Modules
MDP 304 - Production Engineering
(3)
Minor
Elective Courses 3,4
Fourth
Year
MEP 441 - Nuclear Engineering
MEP 442 - Environmental
Pollution
MEP 443 - New and Renewable
Energy
MEP 444 - Advanced Air
Conditioning
MEP 445 - Fires and Explosions
MEP 446 - Hydraulic Power
Stations
MEP 447 - Refrigeration and
Cryogenics
MEP 448 - Conservation of Energy
in Combustion Systems
MEP 449 - Design of Pipe
Networks
MEP 450 - Water Desalination
MEP 451 - Advanced Combustion
MEP
452 - Applications of Computational Methods in
Mechanical Power Engineering
MEP 453 - Two Phase Flow
MEP 454 - Air Pollution Control
Systems
MEP 455 - Use of Computers in
Control
Elective Courses
MEP 441 Nuclear
Engineering
Introduction -
Principles pf nuclear engineering - Generation, transport and transfer of
energy in the nuclear reactor core - Nuclear power plants - Pressurized water
reactors (PWR), Boiling water reactors (BWR) and Gas-cooled reactors (GCR) -
Fast breeder reactors (FBR) - The future of nuclear fusion - Reactors safety -
Power plant site selection.
MEP 442 Environmental
Pollution
Pollution Sources: Air
Pollution, Noise Pollution, Thermal Pollution, Water Pollution, Solid Waste - (
Special emphasis on sources related to mechanical power engineering
particularly combustion ) - Pollution control Pollution Effects - Environmental
Standard Specifications.
MEP 443 New &
Renewable Energy (3+2)
Introduction , Different
sources - Solar energy , Availability of solar energy collection, solar energy
systems- Wind energy wind chactionsties wind bubble theory , wind energy
conversion systems- Diems energy , babes production , lioness vtilagahon
systems and sneeze equipment's hydraulic power , - the systems and the
turbines used.
MEP 444 Advanced Air
Conditioning
Classification of
different air conditioning systems - Application requirements and system
selection - Special applications - Heat exchange equipment - Water spray
equipment - Air distribution and fans - Water distribution and pumps - Air
filters - Control of air conditioning systems - Design for eneegy saving.
MEP 445 Fire and
Explosion
Fundamentals of Fire
Science - Explosions - Fire Models - Fire and Smoke Spread - Fire Safety
Equipment.
MEP 447 Refrigeration
and Cryogenics
Absorption refrigeration
- Enthalpy/Concentration diagrams - Processes on binary mixtures -
Thermodynamic cooling - Ultra low temperature refrigeration - Gas liquefaction
- Cold storage - Design of cold stores - Refrrigeration equipment - Special
applications.
MEP 448 Energy
Conservation in Combustion Systems
Introduction to Combustion
Systems - Definition of Combustion Efficiency and Factors Affecting it -
Methods of Energy Conservation in Combustion Systems - Control Systems in
Combustion - Waste Heat Recovery - Performance Control of Various Systems
MEP 449 Pipeline Design
Introduction , governing
equations , calculation of losses in valves and litanies - designs.
MEP 450 Water
Desalination
Introduction - Basics of
desalination - Desalination technologies; thermal, membrane, electrical and
chemical - desalination - Cogeneration system - Desalination using renewable
energy sources - Economics of desalination.
MEP 451 Advanced
Combustion
Flame Theories -
Pre-mixed Combustion - Unpremixed Combustion - Applications - Heterogeneous
Combustio.
Courses
Offered To Other Departments
MEP 117 Mechanical
Engineering (1) (2+1)
Thermodynamics : Theory
and concepts - Application to internal combustion engines and power stations.
MEP 217 Mechanical
Engineering (2) (4+2)
Fluid Mechanics: Theory
of fluid mechanics, Application to: pumps, turbines, fans, hydraulic control,
and hydraulic power plants.
Heat Transfer: Theory of
heat transfer - Applications to insulators and cooling of electric cables and
equipment.
MEP 218-1
Thermodynamics (4+2)
Concepts of
thermodynamics - Properties of pure substances - First law of thermodynamics
and its applications - Second law of thermodynamics and its applications -
Carnot cycle - Reciprocating internal combustion engines - Steam power plants -
Gas turbines power plants - Refrigeration.
Heat transfer :
conduction, convection, radiation, heat exchanger, and cooling of electric
equipment.
MEP 218-2 Fluid
Mechanics (3+1)
Fluid properties and
definitions - Fluid statics - Basic concepts of flow - Flow, momentum, and
energy Equations - Flow in pipes - Fluid applications : pumps, fans and
turbines.
MEP 219 Mechanical
Engineering (3+2)
Power generation -
Different types of combustion engines - Actual and modified cycles - Steam
generation and steam power plant - Gas compressors - Refrigeration.
MEP 221 Thermodynamics
and Combustion Engines (3+2)
Introduction - First and
second laws of thermodynamics - Properties of pure substances in their
different phases - Cycles - Ideal gases - Internal combustion engines - Gas
compressors (reciprocating and rotary) - Psychrometry.
Introduction to
refrigeration and air conditioning - Refrigeration vapor compression cycle -
Introduction to heat transfer - Heat exchangers.
MEP 223 Thermodynamics
and Combustion Engines (3+2)
Introduction - General
revision - First and second laws of thermodynamics - Properties of pure
substances in their different phases - Phase diagram - Cycles - Ideal gases -
Internal combustion engines - Gas compressors (reciprocating and rotary) - Gas turbines
- Introduction to heat transfer and its applications - Heat exchangers.
MEP 224 Mechanical Engineering
(2) (2+2)
Fluid Dynamics :
Dimensions homogeneity - Fluid properties - Kinematics of fluid flow - Surface
layers - Flow in pipes - Pressure - External and internal flow - Control volume
analysis - Dynamic similarities - Gas dynamics - Submerged bodies -
Measurements.
Engineering
Thermodynamics : Definition of gas mixture - First and second laws of
thermodynamics - Carnot cycle - Maxwell relations - Gibbs Helmholtz equation -
Free energy of reactions - Reactive equations - Equilibrium - Refrigerators -
Steam.
MEP 225 Mechanical
Engineering (3+1)
Introduction to
thermodynamics - Heat transfer - Refrigeration and air conditioning; methods
and equipment - Industrial ventilation - Air purification - Calculation of
thermal loads - Fire alarm and fighting systems - Technical specifications and
commissioning.
MEP 315-1 Heat Transfer
& Air Conditioning (3+2)
Heat Transfer :
Different heat transfer modes, conduction, natural and forced convection,
radiation, finned surfaces, heat exchanger.
Air Conditioning : Vapor
compression cycles, Fundamentals psychrometry, Loads of air conditioning
Systems and cycles of industrial ventilation, Equipment of air conditioning.
MEP 315-2 (A,B) Heat Engines & Hydraulic Machinery (2+2)
Theory of displacement machines - One dimensional flow in
turbines - Hydraulic, gas and steam turbines - Positive displacement engines -
Positive displacement thermodynamic pumps and compressors - Cycles of internal
combustion engines - Spark ignition engines - Compression ignition engines -
Engine performance - Principles of power increase.