Fluid Power Engineering
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Fluid Power Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Fluid Power Engineering (subject code 2151903) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 5 divides the course into 6 units, covering 30 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 (2151903)Unit 1 Hydropower Plant
- Major applications of hydropower plant
- Classification of hydropower plant
- Essential components of hydropower plant
- Advantages and disadvantages of hydropower plant
- selection of site for a hydropower plant
Unit 2 Impact of Jet
- Force exerted on stationary plate held normal and inclined to jet, Force exerted on curved plate
- force exerted on moving plate held normal and inclined in direction of moving jet, Force on a plate when vane is moving in direction of jet, jet striking on curved vane tangentially at one tip and leaving at other end, jet propulsion in ships
Unit 3 Hydraulic Turbines
- Classification of turbines
- Impulse and reaction turbines
- working and performance of Pelton
- Francis and Kaplan Turbines
- Draft tube
- Governing of hydraulic turbines
Unit 4 Centrifugal Pumps
- Pump classification and selection criterion
- Centrifugal pumps
- Velocity vector diagrams
- Pump losses and efficiencies
- Net positive suction head
- Pressure rise in impeller
- Characteristic curves of centrifugal pumps
- maximum suction limit - minimum starting speed to deliver the discharge
- Multistage pumps
- pump selection
Unit 5 Reciprocating Pumps
- Operation of Reciprocating pumps
- discharge co- efficient
- volumetric efficiency
- work done and power required to drive reciprocating pumps
- effect of air vessels
- effect of friction on performance of reciprocating pump
Unit 6 Reciprocating Compressors
- Construction and working
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