Overview of Course & Introduction

Course Overview
• This undergraduate level course teaches the
principles of Internal Combustion Engines.
• The primary focus of the course is on the teaching
of thermodynamics and Gas dynamics in internal
combustion engines.
• The course provides information that will enable
the engineering analysis of spark ignition and
compression ignition engines and also
• It’s separate components including combustion
chambers, ignition methods, fuel supply, cooling
of the engines and etc…
 Course Objectives
• Students successfully completing ME 315 will get:
• A basic understanding of the engine behavior.
Which includes only those aspects of IC engines related to
– overall operations
– fundamental principles
– performance characteristics.
• A basic understanding of the combustion phenomena in
SI and CI engine.
• A basic understanding of the working principles of
advanced technologies such as VVT, turbocharger ete…
• The ability to analyze engines; determine efficiency of the
engine.
 Course Contents

• Fuel-air cycles
• Actual cycles
• Combustion in SI engines
• Stages of combustion
• Flame propagation
• SI combustion chambers
• Combustion in CI engines
• Delay period
• CI engine combustion chambers
• Carburetion
• Fuel injection
• Ignition
• Engine friction and lubrication
• Engine cooling
• Testing and performance.
 Books & References
• John.B.Heywood, Internal combustion engine
fundamentals, McGraw Hill.
• C.F.Taylor, The internal combustion engines theory
and practice, vol. I & II, MIT press.
• V.Ganesan, Internal Combustion Engines, McGraw-
Hill 1995
• M.L.Mathur and R.P Sharma, “A Course in Internal
Combustion Engine”, Dhanpat Rai and Sons.
• E.F Obert, “Internal combustion engines”.
• V.M. Domkundwar, “A Course in Internal Combustion
Engines”, Dhanpat Rai and Co.
 Student Evaluation
• Report – 10%
• Quizzes – 10%
• Assignments – 10%
• Mid Semester Exam– 20%
• End Semester Exam– 50%
Total - 100%
 Report Quizzes Assignments Mid Semester End Semester
Exam Exam
(10%) (10%) (10%) (20%) (50%)

One# Four** Eight* One** One**

# Report will be evaluated for 10 points.

* Submit the assignment through email within the specified date
and it will be evaluated for 10 points
** If you miss the test no repetition test will be given
 Grading Policy

• Students below 30% marks will be given FF grade.

• Attendance is compulsory or will get FA grade.
Questions
A car riding on biomass?
 I.C.ENGINES!

DO WE REALLY NEED ‘EM?

I have always considered that the substitution of the
Internal Combustion Engine for the horse marked a
very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.
-Winston Churchill

If all the perverted ingenuity which was put into

making automobiles had only gone into improving
the breed of horses, we might be a lot better off
today.
-Joe Gould
 ENGINES!
BOON OR BANE?
• Greatest invention since the wheel?
• Made transportation easy!
• Made life easy!
OR DID IT?
• Increased pollution
• Increased fossil fuel consumption
• Increased congestion on roads
 BUT………..
• WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT….
CAN WE DO WITHOUT IT?
• DO WE HAVE VIABLE ALTERNATIVES?
THINK………
• AS OF TODAY WE HAVE NO ANSWER
• MAY BE FOR AT LEAST 20 YEARS
MORE!
• SO WE ARE STUCK WITH IT………!
SO WE STUDY IT………….!
And so on to the course:
The Chance To Converge

Nikolaus August Otto Rudolf Diesel