Unit 1

Spark Ignition engines: Mixture requirement – Feedback control carburettors – Fuel injection systems. Stochiometric combustion – combustion with excess airequivalence ratio.

Stages of combustion: Normal and Abnormal combustion – Knock Combustion chambers. Simple thermodynamic analysis of SI engine combustion.

Unit 2

Compression ignition engines: Nature of combustion in IC engines – Direct and Indirect injection systems – Air motion – Combustion Chambers – Spray penetration and evaporation. Supercharging – Turbo charging. Thermodynamic analysis of CI engine combustion. Wankel Engine: Operation & applications. Hybrid vehicles.

Thermo chemistry: Pollutant formation, Instrumentation to measure pollutants – Pollutant calculation – Effect of air-fuel ratio.

Unit 3

• Heywood J. B. – ‘Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals’ – McGraw-Hill – 1998
• Obert E. F. – ‘Internal Combustion Engines and Air pollution’ – Harper and Row – 1973

• Ferguson C. R. – ‘Internal Combustion Engines’ – John Wiley – 1989
• Ganesan V. – ‘Internal Combustion Engines’ – Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited, New Delhi – 1998
• Degobert P. – ‘Automobiles and Air Pollution’ – SAE – 2002
• Campbell A. S. – ‘Thermodynamic Analysis of Combustion Engines’ – John Wiley – 1979