Material Science

Credit - 03

Unit 01: Dielectric Properties of Insulating Materials
Static Field, Parameters of Dielectric material [Dielectric constant, Dipole moment, Polarization, Polarizability], Introduction to Polar and Non- Polar dielectric materials. Mechanisms of Polarizations-Electronic, Ionic and Orientation Polarization (descriptive treatment only), Clausius Mossotti Equation, Piezo-Electric, Pyro-Electric & Ferro-Electric Materials, Dielectric loss and loss tangent, Concept of negative tan delta.

Unit 02: A) Dielectric Breakdown 

Introduction, Concept of Primary and Secondary Ionization of Gases (descriptive treatment only), Breakdown Voltage, Breakdown Strength, Factors affecting Breakdown Strengths of Solid, Liquid and Gaseous dielectric materials.

Unit 02: B) Testing of Materials

Explanation of following with objectives, equipment required, circuit diagrams and observations to be taken.
1. Measurement of dielectric loss tangent (tan δ) by Schering Bridge-IS 13585-1994.
2. Measurement of dielectric strength of solid insulating material-IS 2584.
3. Measurement of dielectric strength of liquid insulating material -IS 6798.
4. Measurement of dielectric strength of gaseous insulating material as per IS.

Unit 03 : Insulating Materials, Properties & Applications
Introduction, Characteristics of Good Insulating Material, Classification, Solid Insulating Materials-Paper, Press Board, Fibrous Materials, Ceramics, Mica, Asbestos, Resins, Liquid Insulating Materials such as Transformer Oil, Varnish, Askarel. Insulating Gases like Air, SF6. Insulating Materials for Power and Distribution Transformers, Rotating Machines, Capacitors, Cables, Line Insulators and Switchgears.

Unit 04 : Magnetic Materials
Introduction, Parameters of Magnetic material [Permeability, Magnetic Susceptibility, Magnetization], Classification of Magnetic Materials, Diamagnetism, Paramagnetism, Ferromagnetism, Ferri-magnetism, Ferro-magnetic behavior below Critical Temperature, Spontaneous Magnetization, Anti-ferromagnetism, Ferrites, Applications of Ferro magnetic Materials, Magnetic materials for Electric Devices such as Transformer Core, Core of Rotating
Machines, Soft Magnetic Materials, Hard Magnetic Materials.

Unit 05 : Conducting Materials
General Properties of Conductor, Electrical Conducting Materials - Copper, Aluminum and its applications, Materials of High and Low Resistivity-Constantan, Nickel-Chromium Alloy, Tungsten, Kanthal, Silver and Silver alloys, Characteristics of Copper Alloys (Brass & Bronze), Electrical Carbon Materials. Materials used for Lamp Filaments, Solders, Metals and Alloys for different types of Thermal Bimetal and Thermocouples.

Unit 06 : Nanotechnology
Introduction, Concepts of Energy bands and various Conducting Mechanism in Nano-structures, Carbon Nano-structures, Carbon Molecules, Carbon Clusters, Carbon Nano-tubes and applications. Special Topics in Nano Technology such as Single Electron Transistor, Molecular Machines, BN Nanotubes, Nano wires. Nano materials used in Batteries, Photovoltaic Cells and in Supercapacitors.

Text Books:
[T1] “A Course in Electrical Engineering Materials”, by S.P. Seth, Dhanpat Rai and Sons publication.
[T2] A Textbook of “Electrical Engineering Materials” by R.K.Rajput, Laxmi Publications (P) Ltd.
[T3] “Electrical Engineering Materials”, by T.T.T.I, Madras.
[T4] “Electrical Engineering Materials”, by K. B. Raina and S. K. Bhattacharya, S. K. Kataria Sons.
[T5] “Material Science for Electrical Engineering”, by P.K. Palanisamy, Scitech Pub. Pvt. Ltd., Chennai (India).
[T6] “Introduction to Nanotechnology” by Charles P. Poole, Jr. Frank & J. Ownes (Wiley Student Edition)
 

Reference Books:
[R1] “Electrical Power Capacitors-Design & Manufacture”, by D. M. Tagare, Tata McGraw Hill Publication.
[R2] “Electrical Engineering Materials”, by S. P. Chalotra and B. K. Bhattacharya, Khanna Publishers, Nath Market.
[R3] “Electrical Engineering Materials”, by C. S. Indulkar and S. Thiruvengadam, S. Chand and Company Ltd.
[R4] “High Voltage Engineering” by Kamraju and Naidu, Tata McGraw Hill Publication.
[R5] “Introduction to Material Science for Engineering”, Sixth Edition by James F. Shackelford & M. K. Muralidhara, Pearson Education.
[R6] “Insulation Technology Course Material” of IEEMA Ratner, Pearson Education.
[R7] “Materials Science for Engineering Students”, by Traugott Fischer, Elsevier Publications.
[R8]“Energy Conversion Systems”, by Rakosh Das Begamudre, New Age International Publishers.
[R9] “Advanced Nanomaterials and Their Applications in Renewable Energy”, by Jingbo Louise Liu, Sajid Bashir, ELSEVIER Publications.

Analog And Digital Electronics

CREDIT - 03

Unit 01 : Design of combinational circuit
Booleans algebra, De-Morgan theory etc, Karnaugh map: structure for two, three and four Variables, SOP and POS form reduction of Boolean expressions by K-map. Design of combinational circuits using Boolean expression and K-map, encoder, decoder, half and full adder.

Unit 02: Design of sequential circuit
Introduction to sequential circuit. Design of synchronous (K-map) and asynchronous counters. Up down counters, N modulo counters, Shift registers, ring and twisted ring counters.

Unit 03: Digital memories and logic families
A) Digital memories: SRAM, DRAM, ROM, EPROM
B) Digital logic families: PAL,PLA, CPLD, FPGA

Unit 04: Operational Amplifier Applications 
Open loop and close loop configuration of Op-Amp. Applications of Op- Amp- zero crossing detectors, Comparator, Schmitt trigger, V-I and I-V converters, Instrumentation amplifier, peak detector, Waveform generation using Op-amp - sine, square, saw tooth and triangular generator

Unit 05: Other Analog circuits
Active filters-Its configuration with frequency response, Analysis of first order low pass and high pass filters using OPAMP, IC 555 –construction, working and modes of operation- astable and monostable multi vibrators, Sequence generator, voltage regulators using IC78xx, 79xx, LM 317

Unit 06: Diode rectifier
Single phase half wave rectifier with R, RL loads. Single phase full wave rectifier-Center tap and bridge rectifier supplying R and RL load and performance parameters. Three phase full wave bridge rectifier with R load.

Text Books:
[T1] Floyd and Jain, “Digital Fundamentals”, Pearson Education.
[T2] R. P. Jain, “Digital Electronics”, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi.
[T3] Malvino, “Digital Computer Electronics- An Introduction to Microcomputers,” Tata McGraw Hill.
[T4] Gaikwad R., “Operational Amplifier”, PHI New Delhi.
[T5] Floyd, “Electronics Devices”, Pearson Education.
[T6] Mottershed, “Electronics Devices & Circuits”, PHI New Delhi
[T7] Muhammad H. Rashid, “Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices and Applications”, 3rd edition, Pearsons Education.
[T8] Fundamental of digital circuits, 4th Edition, by A Anand Kumar, PHI learning private limited publication

Reference Books:
[R1] Tokheim, “Digital Electronics-Principles and Application”, 6th edition, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi.
[R2] A Jaico and Charles H. Roth, “Fundamentals of Logic Design” Jr. Forth Edition.
[R3] K. R. Botkar, “Integrated Circuits”, Khanna Publication, New Delhi.
[R4] James, “Operational Amplifier and Linear Integrated Circuits Theory and Application.”
[R5] P John Paul, “Electronics Devices and circuits”, New Age international Publications.

203141: Power Generation Technologies

Credits
Th: 03

Unit 01: Thermal Power Plant 
Basic thermodynamic cycles: Carnot cycle, Rankine cycle; Actual Rankine cycle; Reheat cycle
(theoretical only); heat rate (Numerical on Heat rate).
Thermal Power Plants: Site selection, Main parts and its working. Types of boilers (FBC, Fire
tube, and Water tube). Assessment of heat recovery systems Steam turbines Fuel Handling, Ash
disposal and dust collection, Draught systems, electrostatic precipitator.

Unit 02: Nuclear, Diesel, Gas Power Plant 
A. Nuclear Power Plant: Introduction, atomic physics, nuclear reaction, materials, site selection,
nuclear reactors and working of each part, classification of nuclear reactor, nuclear waste
disposal.
B. Diesel Power Plants: Main components and its working, Diesel plant efficiency and heat
balance (Numerical), Site selection of diesel power plant.
C. Gas Power Plant: Introduction to gas cycles. Simple gas turbine power plant, methods to
improve thermal efficiency, open loop and closed loop cycle power plants, gas fuels, gas turbine
materials, plant layout. Combined cycle power plants, concept of heat to power ratio.

Unit 03: Hydro Power Plant 
Site selection, Hydrology, storage and pondage, general arrangements and operation of hydro
power plant, Hydraulic turbines, turbine size, pelton wheel turbine, Francis and Kaplan turbines,
selection of turbines, Dams, Spillways, gates, intake and out take works, canals and layout of
penstocks, water hammer and surge tank, simple numerical on hydro graphs and number of
turbine required. Small, mini and micro hydro power plant (Introduction only).

Unit 04: Wind Energy Systems 
Historical Development of Wind Power, Types of wind turbine, Impact of Tower Height, Power
in the Wind. Maximum Rotor efficiency, Speed control for Maximum Power, Average Power in
the wind (Numerical). Wind Turbine Generators (WTG) - Synchronous and Asynchronous (block
diagrams only), Wind Turbine Economics, Simple Estimates of Wind Turbine Energy,
Environmental Impacts of Wind Turbines. Change in wind pattern and its effect on power
generation. Control of wind turbine generator.

Unit 05: Solar Energy
Principles of solar radiations, solar constant, cloudy index and concentration ratio, measurement
of solar radiation. Solar energy collectors (solar thermal applications), principle of energy
conversion, collection systems and their features, types of collectors with comparison. Solar
thermal power plants. Over view of recent development of PV technologies. A Generic Photovoltaic Cell, The Simplest Equivalent Circuit for a Photovoltaic Cell From Cells to Modules to Arrays, Numerical on number of solar panel selection. The PV I–V Curve under Standard Test Conditions (STC), Impacts of Temperature and Insolation on I–V Curves, Shading Impacts on I– V curves, System: Introduction to the Major Photovoltaic System Types.

Unit 06: Other Sources and Grid Connection 
Biomass energy, conversion to electricity, municipal solid waste to energy conversion,
geothermal energy and ocean energy and Fuel cell Energy storage requirements and selection
criteria, stand alone, hybrid stand alone and grid connected renewable systems and their
requirements.

Text Books:
[T1] P. K. Nag, “Power Plant Engineering”, Tata McGraw Hill Publications.
[T2] Dr. P. C. Sharma, “Power Plant Engineering”, S.K. Kataria Publications.
[T3] R. K. Rajput, “A text book on Power System Engineering”, Laxmi Publications (P) Ltd.
[T4] Chakrabarti, Soni, Gupta, Bhatnagar, “A text book on Power System Engineering”,
DhanpatRai publication.
[T5] R.K. Rajput, “Non-Conventional Energy Sources and Utilization”, S. Chand Publications.
[T6] M.M. Wakil, “Power Plant Engineering”, McGraw Hill, Indian Edition.
[T7] G. D. Rai, “Renewable Energy Sources”, Khanna Publications.
[T8] Chetan singh solanki “ Solar Photovotaics: Fundamentals, Technology and Application”
PHI Publications.

Reference Books:
[R1] Arora and Domkundwar, “A Course in Power Plant Engineering”, DhapatRai Publication.
[R2] Dr. S. P. Sukhatme, “Solar Energy”, Tata McGraw Hill Publication.
[R3] Mukund Patel, “Wind and Solar Power Plants”, CRC Press.
[R4] Gilbert Masters John, “Renewable Energy”, Wiley and sons’ publications.
[R5] Robert Foster, Majid Ghassemi, Alma Cota “Solar Energy” CRC Press