Cryogenic Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Cryogenic Engineering (subject code 2181917) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 8 divides the course into 6 units, covering 46 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 (2181917)Unit 1 Introduction
- Cryogenic engineering
- properties of cryogenic fluids like Oxygen
- Properties of material at cryogenic temperature- mechanical
- thermal, and electrical-Super conductivity
- application of cryogenic systems in space
- biological etc
Unit 2 Cryogenic refrigeration
- Principle and Methods of production of low temperature and their analysis: Joule Thomson Expansion
- Cascade processes
- Ortho and para hydrogen conversion
- cold gas refrigerators
- Linde -Hampson cycles
- Claude and cascaded systems
- magnetic cooling
- Stirling Cycle Cryocoolers
- Philips refrigerators
- Gifford single volume refrigerator
- Pulse tube refrigerators
Unit 3 Cryogenic requirements
- Cryogenics Heat Exchangers
- Effect of various parameters in performance and system optimization
- Various insulations (expanded foams
- gas filled
- multi-layer etc.) and Storage equipment for cryogenic fluids
- industrial storage and transfer of cryogenic fluids
Unit 4 Gas separation and purification
- Ideal gas, mixture characteristics composition diagrams
- gas separation
- principle of rectification
- plate calculation
- flash calculation rectification column analysis
- separation of air, hydrogen and helium
- gas purification methods
Unit 5 Cryogenic instrumentation and safety
- Properties and characteristics of instrumentation
- strain displacement
- liquid level
- density and temperature measurement in cryogenic range
- Safety in cryogenic fluid handling
- storage and use
- Safety against cryogen hazards like burns
- hypothermia etc
Unit 6 Applications
- Super conductive devices such as bearings
- tunnel diodes
- space technology
- space simulation
- cryogenics in biology and medicine
- food preservation and industrial applications
- nuclear propulsions
- chemical propulsions
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