Presentation of Lab

Experiments
PRESENTED BY:
HAFIZ ABDUL MUQEET
2017-ME-14
 Heat Balance Sheet of Ruston Diesel Engine

• Manually started 950 rpm

• Major loss is unaccounted heat loss BP, 4.7

• Time for fuel consumption decreases Qw, 2.4

BP

Qeg, 0.3 Qw
• Heat supplied increases with increasing rpm Qeg
Quh
Quh, 20.57
Finding out different parameters of Stuart
Diesel Engine
20 Torque (Nm)
Polynomial Fit of Sheet1 B"Torque"

• Started by motor 18

16

Torque (Nm)
14

• Brake power increases

y = Intercept + B1*x^1 + B2*x^
Equation
2
Plot Torque
12 Weight No Weighting
Intercept -303.545 ± 182.39947
B1 0.5697 ± 0.37509
B2 -2.5E-4 ± 1.92302E-4
10 Res idual Sum of Squares 0.9245
R-Square(COD) 0.98937
Adj. R-Square 0.9681

• Torque and volumetric efficiency increases 8

6
900 920 940 960 980 1000 1020 1040 1060
speed (rpm)
• Air to fuel ratio decreases 53.0
Volumetric efficiency
Polynomial Fit of Sheet1 B"Volumetric efficiency"

52.5

Volumetric efficiency (%)

52.0

51.5 Equation
y = Intercept + B1*x^1 + B2*x^2

Plot Volumetric ef f iciency

Weight No Weighting
Intercept -30.395 ± 55.14402
B1 0.1527 ± 0.1134
51.0 B2 -7E-5 ± 5.81378E-5
Residual Sum of Squares 0.0845
R-Square(COD) 0.97577
Adj. R-Square 0.92731

50.5

50.0
880 900 920 940 960 980 1000 1020 1040 1060
speed (rpm)
Visualization of E20 fueled transparent
engine
• Started by pulling the string

• Adjusted air to fuel ratio Engine rpm Color observed

1500 Blue
• Complete combustion at high rpm
1200 Yellow
• Low wavelength color at high rpm
1000 Orange-yellow
Finding out thermal efficiency of steam
boiler
• Finding inlet and outlet enthalpy

• Finding mass flow rates of steam and fuel

• Steam obtained is not super-heated

𝑚ሶ 𝑠 (h2− h1
ƞ𝐵 =
• Efficiency mainly depends upon enthalpies 𝑚𝑓×𝐿𝐶𝑉
 Finding out the isentropic efficiency of steam
turbine
•
Drawing the characteristic curves for Tangye
Air Compressor
• Driven by a 3-phase motor
𝐈𝐏
Overall efficiency = ηoverall = 𝐏
• With increasing rpm:
𝐈𝐈𝐏
a) Indicated power decreases Isothermal efficiency = ηiso = 𝐈𝐏

b) Volumetric efficiency increases 𝑷

Isothermal indicated power = IIP = P1 × V̇ × ln𝑷𝟐
𝟏

c) Isothermal efficiency increases

d) Overall efficiency decreases

Valve timing diagram of Matchless Diesel
engine
• Ideal timing diagram • Actual timing diagram