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FLUID FLOW OPERATION
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BE04005031
Code: BE04005031
Credits: 4
Semester 4
Chemical
Fluid Flow Operation
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The official GTU curriculum for Fluid Flow Operation (subject code BE04005031) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 4 divides the course into 9 units, covering 117 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 (BE04005031)Unit 1 Fluid static and its application
- Nature of fluids
- Pressure concept
- Hydrostatic equilibrium
- decanters like continuous gravity
- centrifugal etc
Unit 2 Fluid Flow Phenomena
- Velocity fluid
- Velocity gradient and rate of shear
- Newtonian and Non- Newtonian fluids
- Viscosity and momentum flux
- Reynolds number and its significance
- laminar and turbulent flow
- Reynolds stresses
- Eddy viscosity
- Laminar and Turbulent flow in boundary layers
- boundary layer formation in straight tubes
- boundary separation and Wake formation
Unit 3 Basic equations of Fluid Flow
- Mass velocity
- average velocity
- potential flow
- stream tubes
- macroscopic momentum balance
- momentum correction factor
- Equation of continuity
- Bernoulli's equation
- corrections for fluid friction
- pump work in Bernoulli’s equations
- angular momentum equations
Unit 4 Flow of incompressible fluids in Conduits and Thin Layers
- Flow of incompressible fluids in Conduits and Thin Layers in pipes
- relation between skin friction and wall shear
- friction factor laminar flow in pipes
- kinetic energy correction factor and momentum correction factor for laminar flow of Newtonian fluids
- Hagen-Poiseuille equation
- Fanning equation
- effect of roughness
- friction factor chart
- friction factor inflow through channels of non-circular cross section
- equivalent diameter
- hydraulic radius
- friction from changes in velocity or direction
- flow through sudden enlargement of cross section
- flow through sudden contraction of cross section
- effect of fittings and valves
- form friction losses in Bernoulli’s equations
- separation of boundary layers in diverging channel
- Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Chemical Engineering Subject Code: BE04005031 Subject Name: Fluid Flow Operation
Unit 5 Flow of Compressible fluids
- Mach number
- continuity equation total energy balance equation
- velocity of sound
- processes of compressible of flow like isentropic expansion
- adiabatic frictional flow
- isothermal frictional flow
- velocity in nozzles
Unit 6 Flow past immersed bodies
- Introduction to Drag
- drag coefficient
- form drag, and stream lining
- friction in fluids through bed of solids
- condition of fluidization
- types of fluidization
- application of fluidization
- continuous fluidization
- slurry and pneumatic transport
Unit 7 Transportation and Metering of fluid
- Pipe and tubing
- joint and fittings selection of pipe sizes
- prevention of leakage around moving parts
- Different types of rotating shaft sealing systems and their selection criteria
- stuffing boxes
- mechanical seals
- Different types of valves and their selection criteria
- valves like Gate
- Plug cocks
- Check valve or non-return valve
- steam trap
- needle valve
- butterfly valve
- diaphragm valve
- control valve
- pressure safety valve
- angle valve
- rotary valve, etc
Unit 8 Fluid moving machinery
- Pumps: its characteristics like developed head power requirement suction lift and cavitations
- different types of pumps and their selection criteria
- positive displacement pumps like reciprocating
- rotary pumps
- diaphragm pump
- centrifugal pumps and its theory
- characteristic of head capacity relation
- pump priming
- characteristic curves and affinity laws for centrifugal pump
- multistage centrifugal pump
- axial flow pump
- turbine pump
- seal less or leak proof pumps
- electromagnetic pump
- vertical centrifugal pump
- air lift pump
- peristaltic pump
- blowers like positive displacement
- centrifugal blowers
- compressor efficiency
- Different types of vacuum pumps and jet ejectors
- their selection criteria
- comparison of devices for moving fluids
Unit 9 Measurement of flowing fluids
- Different types of flow meters and their selection criteria
- full bore meter like venturimeter
- orifice meter
- coefficient of discharge of venturimeter
- area meters like Rotameter
- target meters
- V-element meter
- vortex shedding meters
- coriolis meters
- magnetic meters
- ultra sonic meters
- Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Chemical Engineering Subject Code: BE04005031 Subject Name: Fluid Flow Operation insertion meters like pitot tubes
- thermal meters, etc
- Recent advancement in different pumps
- valves and measuring devices
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