ME 401: Syllabus [3.

00 Credit Hours]

Course Outline [2016]

Introduction: basic engine types, their operation and testing;
Idealized cycles and processes;
Fuels: IC engine fuels, their properties and tests;
Dr. Md. Zahurul Haq
Combustion: SI engine, CI engine and gas turbines; Equilibrium charts;

Professor Exhaust gas analysis and air pollution;

Department of Mechanical Engineering Fuel metering: SI engines, CI engines;
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) Air capacity of engines: two and four stroke cycles, naturally aspirated and
Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh supercharged;
Performance and design: performance of un-supercharged engines and supercharged
zahurul@me.buet.ac.bd engines, design considerations, application of principle of similitude in engine design.
http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/zahurul/
Compressors and turbines: compression processes, volumetric efficiency, multistage
compression, intercooling; Various types of compressors and gas turbines.
ME 401: Internal Combustion Engines
Course Page : http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/zahurul/ME401/

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Tentative Lecture Plan Reference Books

Heywood (1988), Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals,

McGraw-Hill.
Topic Lectures Ferguson & Kirkpatric (2001), Internal Combustion Engines - Applied
1. Engine basics & classifications 3 Thermosciences, J. Wiley & Sons.
2. Idealized cycles and processes 3 Taylor (1985), The Internal-Combustion Engine in Theory &
3. Combustion (SI & CI engines, & gas turbines) 6 Practice, The MIT Press.
4. Fuels & fuel metering 4 Stone (1999), Introduction to Internal Combustion Engines,
5. Air capacity of engines 6 Macmillan.
6. Engine testing & performance parameters 3 McAllister, Chen & Pello (2011), Fundamentals of Combustion
7. Engine performance & similitude in engine design 4 Processes, Springer.
8. Air pollution & exhaust gas analysis 4 Lumley (2000), Engines - An Introduction, Cambridge University
9. Gas turbines 3 Press.
Obert (1973), Internal Combustion Engines & Air Pollution, Harper
& Row.
Bathie, WW (1996) Fundamentals of Gas Turbines, Wiley.

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