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- Catalog Description
- 469 Internal Combustion Engines. I; 3 cr. Fundamental principles of engine operation and
application including cycle analysis, gas analysis, effect of operating conditions and engine design
on air pollution. P: ME 361 or cons inst.
- Course Prerequisite(s)
- See catalog description above.
- Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills
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Students are expected to have a working knowledge of thermodynamics. Topics of discussion will included, first and second law analysis, reacting mixtures, heating values and chemical equilibrium. These topics will be reviewed and discussed in more detail as they are needed during the semester
- Textbook(s) and/or other required material
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Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals by John B. Heywood, McGraw-Hill, Inc. ISBN0-07-028637-X
- Course objectives
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The course material will cover the fundamental thermodynamic operating principles of IC Engines.
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These fundamentals will be used to link the phenomenological processes taking place in the engine for issues of: power generation, emissions and environmental impact, fuel economy and fuel composition effects on engine operation and mechanical limitations of obtaining ideal performance
- Topics covered
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Operating principles
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Chemistry of combustion reactions
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Energy balances and heating values
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Equilibrium and maximum entropy
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Adiabatic flame temperature
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Maximum possible work
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Comparative engine metrics
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Engine mapping
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An "ideal" engine
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Flame propagation and mass burn rates
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Use of air standard cycles
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Practical limitations to attaining ideal efficiency
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SI combustion overview
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Diesel combustion overview
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Octane and cetane ratings
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Fluid mechanic interactions with flames - burn rates
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Overview of exhaust emissions
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Turbocharging and supercharging
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Volumetric efficiency and valving
- Class/laboratory schedule
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Class meets three time per week.
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An engine laboratory may be included - which is done outside of class
- Contribution of course to meeting the professional component
- This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of engineering topics, and does provide design experience.
The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.
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The course material is presented from a perspective of a technical engineering machine which is subjected to government regulations and purchased by very demanding consumers. The government regulations on environmental impact and safety often require design compromises which go against the preference of the consuming public. You can not study this subject without economic, social and political awareness, yet it is an extremely complicated, not well understood piece of engineering.
- Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes
- This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives.
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This course is a technical elective within the department. Students get to apply their core undergraduate course material to understand an actual engineering product. They get a deeper understanding of, and practice in using their engineering science courses in the study of an applied device.
- Assessment of student progress toward course objectives
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Students are graded on a conventional A-F system.
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Homework is assigned, collected and graded.
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There are two examinations during the semester.
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Students are required to perform either a laboratory experiment or do a project of their own creation.
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A final examination is given at the end of the semester
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The final grade is determined by a weighted average of the homework, inclass examinations, lab or project and the final.
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