Alternate Automotive Fuels & Emissions (EV 503 (c))-Electric Vehicles (V Semester) | RGPV

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• Syllabus

• Syllabus - Alternate Automotive Fuels & Emissions (EV 503 (c))

• Introduction

• Estimate of petroleum reserve
• Need for alternate fuel
• Availability and comparative properties of alternate fuels

• CNG and LPG

• Availability, properties, modifications required in SI and CI engines
• Performance and emission characteristics, storage, handling and dispensing, and safety aspects
• Alcohol - Manufacture of alcohol, properties, blending of Methanol and Ethanol
• Engine design modifications required and effects of design parameters
• Performance and emission characteristics, durability
• Types of vegetable oils for engine application, esterification, biogas, properties, engine performance and emission characteristics

• Hydrogen and Fuel cells

• Production methods, properties, performance and emission characteristics, storage and handling, safety aspects
• Working principle, classification, description of fuel cell systems
• Fuel cell components, properties of fuel cell, general performance characteristics, emission characteristics, merits and demerits, vehicle design and layout aspects

• Emissions from SI & CI Engines and its Control

• Emission formation in S.I. engines
• Effects of design and operating variables on emission formation in spark ignition engines
• Controlling of pollutant formation in engines
• Chemical delay – Significance – Intermediate compound formation – Pollutant formation on incomplete combustion
• Effect of operating variables on pollutant formation
• Controlling of emissions

• Emission Measurement and Test procedure

• Measurement of CO, CO2, by NDIR
• Hydrocarbon by FID – Chemiluminescent detector for NOx measurement
• Smoke meters – Dilution tunnel technique for particulate measurement
• Procedures on Engine and Chassis Constant Volume Sampling procedures
• Emission Test– Sampling probes and valves – Quantifying emissions – Dynamometers