Gas turbines. Cycle arrangements. Applications, turbo jets, power
generation. Nozzles for compressible fluids; convergent-divergent, efliciency.
Application to flow measurement.
Turbines. Impulse and impulse reaction. Characteristics.
Compressors. Rotary positive and non-positive displacement. Injectors
and ejectors.
Vapour Power Cycles; reheat, regenerative, and binary combinations.
Refrigeration; reversed Joule cycle; vapour compression cycle with some
characteristics. Evaporators, condensers, and expansion valves. Mixtures
and Psychrometry. Gas mixing and separation. Gas-Vapour mixtures;
application to condensers. The psychrometric ch:lrt.
Heat transfer. Natural and forced convection with and without phase
changes. Reynold's Analogy.
Radiation. Combined modes.
Enthalpy potential. Application to cooling towers.
Process steam. Combined power and process plant. Traps. Accumulators.
Waste heat recovery.
Internal Combustion Engines. Carburat~on, fuel injection. Octane and
Cetane numbers. Detonation, pre-ignition. Supercharging.
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