Energy Conversion Systems
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The official GTU curriculum for Energy Conversion Systems (subject code ME02075041) as prescribed for M(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 39 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 (ME02075041)Unit 1 Fundamentals of Energy Conversion
- Various forms of energy
- thermodynamics of energy conversion
- energy sources
- primary energy sources
- conversion of primary into secondary energy sources such as electricity
- thermal or steam
Unit 2 Fuel Combustion and Gasification
- Fuel composition and heating value
- combustion stoichiometry and calculation
- gaseous product combustion
- coal gasification
- gasification process and gasifiers Program Name: Engineering Level: PG Branch: Energy Engineering Course / Subject Code: Course / Subject Name: Energy Conversion Systems
Unit 3 Thermal Energy
- Steam and gas power plant cycle
- Rankine and Brayton cycles
- efficiency enhancement through reheat
- regenerative and intercooling
- supercritical cycle
- steam generators and boilers - types
- performance evaluation of boilers
- boiler water treatment and blow down
- introduction to FBC boilers
- mechanism and operational features of FBC, retrofitting FBC system to conventional boilers
- steam turbines: classification
- impulse turbine
- reaction turbine
- compound turbine
- performance evolution
- energy losses in turbine and governing
- turbine auxiliary system
- advances in thermal energy
Unit 4 Nuclear Energy
- Energy conversion through fission and fusion
- nuclear reactor: PWR, BWR, GCR, HTRG, HWR, LMFBR
- advances in nuclear energy
Unit 5 Co-generation, Tri-generation & Waste Energy Recovery
- Co- generation Tri-generation: Definition
- saving potential
- Waste heat recovery: Concept of conversion efficiency
- energy waste
- waste heat recovery classification
- advantages and applications
- commercially viable waste heat recovery devices