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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.