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Thermodynamic Tutorial: Laws of thermodynamics and properties of pure substances

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Thermodynamics Tutorial: Second law of Thermodynamics 1 What is the minimum amount of work input necessary to a refrigerator which will convert 1 kg of water at 20 oC into ice at -5oC?  (Ans: 40 kJ) 2 A heat engine receives heat from a solar collector plate. Solar radiation of the amount 1880 kJ/m2 falls … Read more

Various kinds of renewable energy sources

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What are non-conventional energy sources? First let us understand the word, ‘conventional’ term. Conventional means ‘traditional’ or ‘usual way of doing. Fuels that we normally use daily are called ‘conventional fuels’ and the sources of it called ‘conventional energy sources. These include petrol, diesel, crude oil, gas, etc. Non-conventional energy sources are also called renewable … Read more

Final year Mechanical Engineering projects topics/options

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Up-gradation/Overhauling of the existing setup Normally, In any engineering college, which is quite old, has some laboratories which contain faulty equipment  If you are in search of final year engineering project topics, you can get the opportunity to make that existing setup or equipment in working condition and start primary experimentation on it. This should be … Read more

All you need to know about final year project topics

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Being a student of engineering, you all have to do a final year project. This project aims at implementing all the technical knowledge that you have obtained in your entire engineering. The making of the project helps you to understand teamwork, leadership, and project management qualities. But one point always there in students’ minds is … Read more

Heat and mass transfer – NPTEL Video lectures from Dr. S P Sukhatme

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In every mechanical engineering curriculum, heat and mass transfer is an important subject for each student of mechanical engineering. As a mechanical engineer, one should be familiar with the following basic subjects: 1. Solid Mechanics (Engineering Mechanics + Strength of Materials) 2. Fluid Mechanics 3. Thermodynamics 4. Heat and mass transfer 5. Machine Dynamics and kinematics … Read more

How to operate Vacuum Pump and Working of Liquid Nitrogen Plant

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Want to know about “How to operate Vacuum Pump and Working of Liquid Nitrogen Plant”?

1. Vacuum Pump

Vacuum requirements are one of the critical factors that affect the cryogenics temperature. Without Vacuum, no cryogenics systems survive. Look at Pulse Tube Cryocooler and related Cryocooler, which always requires a vacuum to keep resists atmospheric temperature and minimize conduction and convection losses because Vacuum is having no medium and heat transfer requires medium except radiation heat transfer. Once you have a Vacuum pump but it is not sufficient, you need to know how to operate it. Visit URL as under:

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Future trending areas in Mechanical Engineering All you need to know about Renewable Energy Sources