Schedule

Overview of the Course: 1 Hour: AKA/ GK

Lecture 1: 3 hrs: GK

Outlook for Energy and Transport– relevant to Indian conditions.
A. Discusses drivers for energy demand, supply and demand issues, conventional energy sources and alternatives. Global warming and climate change issues. International, e.g. IPCC initiatives. Net zero targets. Is there an “existential crisis”? Challenges of energy transition. Global greenhouse gas (GHG) levels are unlikely to come down sufficiently. The focus should be more on adapting to changes, if any, of future warming as humanity has done successfully with the 1.1 C warming over the past century.
B. Transport energy outlook – drivers for change, prospects for alternatives to internal combustion engines and conventional fuels, challenges of full electrification, the importance of internal combustion engines and the necessity and potential for improving them
C. Life cycle analysis with examples from recent studies in Indian conditions

Lecture 2: 1 hr: GK

Practical Transport Fuels – Composition, Properties, Manufacture, Specifications

Lecture 3: 1 hr: AKA

Introduction to Alternate Fuels and Emissions Scenario Worldwide, Role of Methanol Economy in Energy Future of India

Lecture 4: 1 hr: AKA

BioFuels: Introduction to biofuels, Chemistry of vegetable oils, Advantages/ Disadvantages of vegetable oils as fuels, Transesterification

Lecture 5: 1 hr: AKA

Gasoline Direct Injection Engines and Engine Endoscopy: Tools for Emission Compliance

Lecture 6: 1 hr: AKA

CNG Fuelled Vehicles: Advantages/ Disadvantages, Properties, Various CNG induction techniques. CNG performance, emissions, maintenance, LNG (production, preliminary processes), unregulated emissions, Storage systems, leak detection systems and other safety instrumentation

Lecture 7: 2 hrs: GK

Deposits in Engines and Fuel Additives. Fuel system, intake system and combustion chamber deposits in SI engines; diesel injector deposits in diesel engines. Mechanisms of formation; effect on engine performance and operation; methods of control

Tutorial 1: 1 hr: GK

Problem-solving session with examples: Energy use in India, Alternative Fuels

Lecture 8: 2 hrs: GK

Fuel Anti-Knock Quality and Knock in SI Engines. Knock and SI engine performance; fuel anti-knock quality, RON, MON and octane index; lessons from HCCI studies; future fuel requirements.

Lecture 9: 1 hrs: GK

Insights into knock onset, knock intensity, super knock and preignition. Knock fundamentals; ignition delay and Livengood-Wu integral; stochastic nature of knock; knock intensity, developing detonation and super knock; difference between preignition and super knock; application of fundamental insights to practical understanding.

Lecture 10: 2 hrs GK

Fuel effects in compression ignition engines. Particulate/NOx control and ignition delay; Gasoline Compression Ignition (GCI) engines; fuel effects, advantages, challenges and prospects for GCI; dual fuel approaches to low NOx/low soot combustion. Gasoline compression ignition (GCI) engines

Lecture 11: 1 hrs: AKA

Low-temperature combustion: HCCI, Comparison with SI & CI, Combustion in HCCI, Fuel induction strategies and HCCI combustion phasing

Lecture 12: 2 hrs: AKA

Laser diagnostic techniques: PIV, working principle, components and general aspects, applications, advantages.

Lecture 13: 1 hrs: AKA

Selective Catalytic Reduction Technique, NOx Storage Catalysts

Lecture 14: 2 hrs: GK

Evolution of future transport energy and implications for future fuels. Summary of previous lectures. Future fuels and engines.

Tutorial 2: 1 hr: AKA

Problem-solving session with examples: PIV and NOx

Examination: 1 hr: AKA/ GK

Conclusion of the Course: 1 Hr