MV6101 BASICS OF MARINE ENGINEERING SYLLABUS REGULATION 2013

MV6101 BASICS OF MARINE ENGINEERING L T P C
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OBJECTIVES
On Completion of the course the Students are expected to
• Have studied the renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Sources
• Have a good knowledge of working principle of 2 Stroke and 4 Stroke Marine IC Engines

 Have sound knowledge of Marine Refrigeration and Air- Conditioning Plant
 Have a Knowledge of Metal Forming and Joining Processes and various Power Transmission methods

UNIT I ENERGY RESOURCES AND POWER GENERATION 9
Renewable and Non-renewable resources – thermal, hydel, solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and nuclear – Indian energy scenario.
Power Plants - Steam, gas turbine, diesel, nuclear and hydel power plants – Layout, major components and working, Choice of the type of plant, Combined cycles, cogeneration, Importance of Energy storage, Environmental constraints of power generation using fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
Steam generators - Classification, working or Cochran, Babcock Wilcox, Lamont and Benson boilers, Principles and features of modern high pressure boiler – tower type boilers. (A separate study of boiler mountings and accessories are beyond the scope of this course).

UNIT II MARINE I.C. ENGINES 9
Classification, Working principles of petrol and diesel engines - two stroke and four stroke cycles, functions of main components, Carburetion - Single jet Carburetor, mixture strength, Ignition system of petrol engine, Fuel pump and injector of diesel engine, Cooling system – necessity, air and liquid cooling, optimum cooling, Lubrication system – purpose and methods of lubrication, lubrication oil classification and selection.

UNIT III MARINE REFRIGERATION & AIR CONDITIONING 9
Refrigeration – application and types, Vapour compression refrigeration system – working principles and features, working fluids.
Air conditioning – requirement of conditioned air, summer and winter air conditioning, layout of a typical window air conditioner, Thermoelectric cooling.

UNIT IV METAL FORMING, METAL JOINING PROCESSES 9
Metal forming – Principles of forging – mechanical power hammers – Hot and Cold forging processes – rolling, drawing and extrusion, Metal joining processes – flexible and permanent, Principles of welding – Fundamentals of arc welding, gas welding and gas cutting, Brazing and Soldering
UNIT V POWER TRANSMISSION 9
Brief introduction to belt and rope drives. Simple and compound gear trains. Machine Tool Engineering - Main Components and functions of lathe, drilling, shaping, planning and milling machines.
Introduction to CAD, CAM, CIM and ROBOT.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Taylor, “Introduction to Marine engineering”, 2nd Edition, Butterworth Heinemann, London, 1999
2. Shanmugam.G., Basic Mechanical Engineering 3rd Edition, TATA McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, Year 2000

REFERENCES:
1. Venugopal K., Basic Mechanical Engineering, Fourth Edition, Anuradha Agencies, Chennai, Year 1994.
2. Duraivelu. K., Richard. S., Basic Mechanical Engineering, 2nd Edition, Dear Publication, Chennai, 2001.
3. Leslie Jackson and Thomas D. Morton, Reed’s General Engineering Knowledge for Marine Engineers.

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