WEEKLY PLAN

ME- 51043, Gas Turbine Theory

Weekly Plan for Fifth Year (Mechanical) Semester I
Examples and
Date Lessons
Exercises
Chapter-1 Introduction
1.1 Open Cycle single shaft and twin shaft arrangement
1st Week 1.2 Multi-spool arrangement
1.3 Closed Cycles
1.4 Aircraft Propulsion
1.5 Industrial Application
2nd Week 1.6 Marine and Land transportation
1.7 Environmental issues
1.8 Some future possibilities Tutorial I
3rd Week
1.9 Gas Turbine design procedure
Chapter-2 Shaft Power Cycle
4th Week
2.1 Ideal Cycles
2.1 Ideal Cycles Revision
5th Week Practical I
2.2 Method of accounting for component losses
2.3 Design Point performance Calculations
Stagnation Properties
Example
6th Week Compressor and turbine efficiency
(2.1,2.2,2.3)
Pressure Losses
Heat exchanger effectiveness
2.4 Comparative Performance of Practical Cycles
Mechanical losses Problem (2.1,2.9)
7th Week
Variation of specific heat
Fuel/air ratio, Combustion and Cycle efficiency
2.5 Combined Cycle and Cogeneration Schemes Practical II
8th Week
2.6 Closed-cycle Gas Turbines Tutorial II
Chapter-3, Gas Turbine cycles for aircraft propulsion
9th Week 3.1 Criteria of Performance Example (3.1)
3.2 Intake and propelling nozzle efficiencies
3.3 Simple Turbojet cycle Problem
10th Week
(3.1,3.2,3.3)
3.4 The turbofan engine
11th Week 3.5 The turboprop engine Example (3.2),
3.6 The turboshaft engine
3.7 Auxiliary Power Units
12th Week Problem (3.4,3.5)
3.8 Thrust augmentation
Chapter-4, Centrifugal Compressor
Example (4.1)
13th Week 4.1 Principle of Operation
Problem( 4.1)
4.2 Work done and Pressure rise
4.3 The Diffuser Problem
14th Week
4.4 Compressibility Effects (4.2,4.3,4.5)
4.5 Non-dimensional quantities for plotting compressor
15th Week Tutorial III
characteristics

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