ME-421 GAS TURBINES
CREDIT HOURS
Theory = 3
Practical = 0
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)
| S. No. | CLOs | PLO | Taxonomy |
| 1 | Apply gas turbine cycles for power generation and air craft propulsion | PLO-2 |
Coginitive |
| 2 | Design components and process related to gas turbine cycles | PLO-3 | Coginitive Level 5* |
| 3 | Analyze off-design performance of gas turbines used in power generation and aircraft propulsion | PLO-2 | Coginitive Level 4* |
COURSE CONTENT
- Effect of pressure, Temperature, Component efficiency on fuel and air consumption and Power of the simple plant, Inter-cooling, reheat, Heat exchanger cycles, Industrial open and closed plant.
- Turboprop, Turbofan and turbojet engines, Influence of altitude and flight speed on performance.
- Principle of operation, Work done and pressure rise, Compressibility effects, Non-dimensional quantities for plotting compressor characteristics.
- Elementary theory, Degree of reaction, Simple design method, Blade design, Calculation of stage performance, Overall performance, compressibility effect.
- Form of combustion system, Some important factors effecting combustion chamber designing, combustion process, Combustion chamber performance.
- Elementary theory, Vortex theory, Choice of blade profile, pitch and cord, Estimation of stage performance, Overall turbine performance.
- Component Characteristics, Off-design operation of the single shaft gas turbine, Equilibrium running of a gas generator, Off-design operation of free-turbine engine, Jet engine.
- Experiments on BHP of Gas Turbine, compressor and turbine efficiencies, and specific fuel consumption will be conducted in the lab.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
(01) Mechanics & Thermodynamics of Propulsion by Hill & Peterson
*For details of Taxonomy Levels CLICK HERE!
