Automotive Pollution and Control
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Automotive Pollution and Control Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Automotive Pollution and Control (subject code 3170212) as prescribed for Auto · Semester 7 divides the course into 5 units, covering 37 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3170212)Unit 1 EMISSION FROM AUTOMOBILES -
- Pollutants – sources – formation – effects of pollution on environment - human – transient operational
- effects on pollution – Regulated – Unregulated emissions - Emission Standards
Unit 2 EMISSION FROM SPARK IGNITION ENGINE AND ITS CONTROL
- Emission formation in SI Engines – Carbon monoxide & Carbon di oxide – Unburned hydrocarbon, NOx, PM – Effects of design and operating variables on emission formation – controlling of pollutants – fuel modifications - Positive Crank case ventilation system
- Evaporative Emission Control
- Exhaust Gas Recirculation
- Secondary air injection
- thermal reactor
- Catalytic converters – Types – substrate
- Wash coat and Catalyst
- Cold start emission control – Close coupled catalytic converter
- Hydrocarbon Adsorber- Leam de-NOx Catalysts- NOx traps – Catalyst deactivation
- use of unleaded petrol
Unit 3 EMISSION FROM COMPRESSION IGNITION ENGINE AND ITS CONTROL
- Formation of White
- Blue, and Black Smokes
- Particulate Matter NOx, SOx, HC, CO and Intermediate Compounds – Significance Effect of design and Operating variables on Emission formation —Fuel modification/additives
- CRDI - High Injection Pressure and Injection Rate Shaping and Multiple injection
- EGR- EGR Cooling and Heating
- EGR Control
- Diesel Oxidation Catalysts
- Diesel de-NOx Catalysts
- NOx traps, SCR, Diesel Particulate Filters - DPF material
- structure and regeneration- HCCI Engines
Unit 4 NOISE POLLUTION FROM AUTOMOBILES
- Sources of Noise — Engine Noise
- Transmission Noise
- vehicle structural Noise
- aerodynamics noise
- Exhaust Noise
- Noise reduction in Automobiles — Encapsulation technique for noise reduction — Silencer Design
Unit 5 TEST PROCEDURES AND EMISSION MEASUREMENTS
- Test cycles for light and medium duty vehicles – US-EPA cycle
- ECE and EUDC cycle
- 09 Subject Code: 3170212 w.e.f
- AY 2018-19 Japanese cycle
- Indian driving cycles – steady state and transient cycles - SHED Test - Chassis dynamometer – Constant Volume Sampling (CVS) Procedure for driving cycles - Emission analyzers — NDIR, FID, Chemiluminesecent Analyzer (CLA)
- Smoke meters
- Gas Chromatography
- Particulate Emission Measurement - Dilution Tunnel
- Sound level meters
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