Unit 1 Conventional and Alternate Fuels

• Conventional Fuels: Estimation
• advantages, and disadvantages. 11 25 Program Name: Engineering Level: PG Branch: Mechanical (I.C.Engine & Automobile Engineering) Course / Subject Code : ME01000471 Course / Subject Name : Alternate Fuels and Energy Alternate Fuels: Need
• availability, and comparative properties
• Types of Alternate Fuels: Alcohols, LPG, Hydrogen, CNG, LNG, Vegetable oils
• Merits and Demerits: Comparative analysis of various alternate fuels

Unit 2 Alcohol as a Fuel

10 lecture hours

• Manufacture of Alcohols: Production processes
• Properties as Engine Fuels: Alcohol and gasoline blends in S.I. engines
• Performance Analysis: Methanol and gasoline blends
• impact of compression ratio
• stratified charge engines
• Combustion Characteristics: Alcohol use in CI engines
• ignition accelerators
• diesel emulsions
• dual fuel systems

Unit 3 Vegetable Oils, Biogas, and Other Fuels

7 lecture hours

• Vegetable Oils: Esterification
• engine performance
• Biogas: Performance and emission characteristics
• Other Fuels: Shale oil, coal liquid
• tars—performance and emission analysis

Unit 4 Gaseous Fuels

10 lecture hours

• CNG &LPG: Availability of CNG
• Modification required to use in Engines
• Performance and Emission characteristics of CNG, LPG in SI and CI Engines
• Performance and Emission data for LPG
• Hydrogen: Production methods
• Storage and handling
• Safety aspects

Unit 5 Electric and Hybrid Vehicles

7 lecture hours

• Electric Vehicles: Layout
• specifications, and components
• Hybrid Vehicles: Electronic control systems
• high-energy batteries
• Solar and Hydrogen Energy Vehicles: Latest developments and applications