Fuels & Lubricants
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Fuels & Lubricants Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Fuels & Lubricants (subject code 3330204) as prescribed for COMPUTER · Semester 3 divides the course into 7 units, covering 44 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 (3330204)Unit 1 Introduction to Fuels
- 1.1. Basic requirements of a fuel & lubricant.
- 1.2. Types of fuels & lubricants its uses & sources
- 1.3. Theory of origin and accumulation of crude oil
- 1.4. Methods of searching crude oil
- 1.5. Recovery of crude oil
- 1.6. Classification of crude oil
- 1.7. Classification of hydrocarbon
- 1.8. Structure of various hydrocarbon
- 1.9. Fractional distillation and classification of refinery products
- 1.10. Various refining processes
- 1.11. Blending and treatment of gasoline
Unit 2 Properties and Additives of Fuel
- 2.1. Various desirable properties of SI engine fuels
- 2.2. Their effect on engine performance
- 2.3. Additives of gasoline
- 2.4. Various desirable properties of CI engine fuels
- 2.6. Additives of diesel
Unit 3 Combustion Process and Rating of Fuels
- 3.1. Combustion in SI engine
- 3.11. (i) Normal and abnormal combustion
- 3.12. (ii) Factors affecting normal combustion
- 3.13. (iii)Ignition Lag and factors affecting it
- 3.14. (iv) Pre-ignition and its effects
- 3.15. (v) Detonation, its effects and factors affecting it and prevention
- 3.2. Combustion in CI engine
- 3.21. (i) Phases of combustion in CI engine
- 3.22. (ii) Factors affecting combustion in CI engine
- 3.24. (iv) Diesel knock, its effects and factors affecting it and prevention
- 3.3. Rating of Fuel
- 3.31. (i) Octane number, merits and demerits of higher octane fuel and normal octane fuel
- 3.32. (ii) Cetane number
Unit 4 Introduction to Engine Friction and Lubricants
- 4.1. Engine frictional losses
- 4.2. Factors affecting frictional losses
- 4.3. Boundary lubrication
- 4.4. Hydro dynamic lubrication
- 4.5. Classification and types of lubricanting oil Fuels and Lubricants Course code: 3330204 GTU/NITTTR/Bhopal/12-13 Gujarat State 3 Unit Major Learning Outcomes (Course Outcomes in Cognitive Domain according to NBA terminology) Topics and Sub-topics of lubricant and types of lubricants
- 4.6. Basic requirements of lubricants
- 4.7. Distillation process to get lubricating oil from crude oil
- 4.8. Various treatment given to the lubricating oil
- 4.9. Types of grease and its characteristics
Unit 5 Properties, Gradation and Additives of Lubricants
- 5.1. various properties of lubricating oil
- 5.2. Gradation of lubricating oil
- 5.3. Introduction of ISO Cleanliness code.
- 5.4. Function and type of additives of lubricating oil
Unit 7 Measurement of Various Properties of Fuels & Lubricant
- 7.1. Measurement of various properties of fuels & lubricants.
- 7.2. Safety precautions while measuring properties of fuels & lubricants.
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