Cryogenic Plants and Equipment
Get the full GTU study material, English & Gujarati textbook PDFs, syllabus curriculum, and solved previous year question papers.
English Book & Chapters
English Book Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesGTU Previous Year Papers
Papers Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesCryogenic Plants and Equipment Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Cryogenic Plants and Equipment (subject code ME02074021) as prescribed for M(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 40 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 (ME02074021)Unit 1 Gas separation and gas purification system
- Thermodynamically Ideal separation system
- general characteristics of mixtures
- temperature composition diagram for cryogenic gas mixtures
- enthalpy composition diagrams
- Simple condensation and evaporation
- principles of rectification
- theoretical plate calculations for columns
- Mecabe – Thiele method for theoretical plate calculation
- types of rectification columns
Unit 2 Air separation and purification systems
- Linde single column
- double column
- Linde-Frank1 and Heylandt systems
- xenon and krypton. ‘L’ Air liquede systems for hydrogen
- hydrogen – deuterium in separation systems
- helium separation system
- separation of helium isotopes
- purification of helium
- Modern air liquefaction
- liquid nitrogen and oxygen plants
Unit 3 Dewars, classification of Dewars, static and chassis mounted cryogenic
- liquid storage and transport tanks LNG storage tanks
- construction Liquid and vapour shielded vessels
- cryogenic liquid transfer pumps
- liquid transfer lines their design
- vacuum insulated line joints, and cryogenic valves liquid transfer systems
Unit 4 Fabrications and jointing techniques, flanged and bolted joints, joining of
- dissimilar metals
- welding of stainless steel and alloy steels 6 10
Unit 5 Design of regenerative type heat exchanger for single and multistage,
- Gifford single volume
- double volume
- cryo refrigerators
- Finned tube and plate type heat exchangers
- different configuration heat transfer coefficients and friction coefficient for various configuration
- Single tube Linde exchanger
- double tube type
- three channel heat exchanger
- Linde multiple tube type
- Giauque Hampson
- Plate fin heat exchanger
- different fin configuration
- heat transfer coefficients, and friction factors for various configurations
- Testing of heat exchangers as per standards
Study on Android App:
