Pusa Institute of Technology Industrial Visit At: Wectin
Pusa Institute of Technology Industrial Visit At: Wectin
Pusa Institute of Technology Industrial Visit At: Wectin
COURTESY TATA
LALLY AUTOMOBILES, WAZIRPUR
Fig.1
Typically an ICE is fed with fossil fuels like natural gas or petroleum products such
as gasoline, diesel fuel or fuel oil. There is a growing usage of renewable fuels like
biodiesel for compression ignition engines and bioethanol or methanol for spark
ignition engines. Hydrogen is sometimes used, and can be made from either
fossil fuels or renewable energy.
APPLICATION
Reciprocating piston engines are by far the most common power source for land
and water vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, ships and to a lesser
extent, locomotives (some are electrical but most use Diesel engines[5][6]).
Rotary engines of the Wankel design are used in some automobiles, aircraft and
motorcycles.
Where very high power-to-weight ratios are required, internal combustion engines
appear in the form of combustion turbines or Wankel engines. Powered aircraft
typically uses an ICE which may be a reciprocating engine. Airplanes can instead
use jet engines and helicopters can instead employ turboshafts; both of which are
types of turbines. In addition to providing propulsion, airliners may employ a
separate ICE as an auxiliary power unit. Wankel engines are fitted to many
unmanned aerial vehicles
Structure
Bare cylinder block of a V8 engine
The base of a reciprocating internal combustion engine is the engine block, which
is typically made of cast iron or aluminium. The engine block contains the
cylinders. In engines with more than one cylinder they are usually arranged
either in 1 row (straight engine) or 2 rows (boxer engine or V engine); 3 rows are
occasionally used (W engine) in contemporary engines, and other engine
configurations are possible and have been used. Single cylinder engines are
common for motorcycles and in small engines of machinery. Water-cooled
engines contain passages in the engine block where cooling fluid circulates (the
water jacket). Some small engines are air-cooled, and instead of having a water
jacket the cylinder block has fins protruding away from it to cool by directly
transferring heat to the air. The cylinder walls are usually finished by honing to
obtain a cross hatch, which is better able to retain the oil. A too rough surface
would quickly harm the engine by excessive wear on the piston.
The pistons are short cylindrical parts which seal one end of the cylinder from the
high pressure of the compressed air and combustion products and slide
continuously within it while the engine is in operation. The top wall of the piston
is termed its crown and is typically flat or concave. Some two-stroke engines use
pistons with a deflector head. Pistons are open at the bottom and hollow except
for an integral reinforcement structure (the piston web). When an engine is
working the gas pressure in the combustion chamber exerts a force on the piston
crown which is transferred through its web to a gudgeon pin. Each piston has
rings fitted around its circumference that mostly prevent the gases from leaking
into the crankcase or the oil into the combustion chamber. A ventilation system
drives the small amount of gas that escape past the pistons during normal
operation (the blow-by gases) out of the crankcase so that it does not
accumulate contaminating the oil and creating corrosion. In two-stroke gasoline
engines the crankcase is part of the airfuel path and due to the continuous flow
of it they do not need a separate crankcase ventilation system.
Valve train above a Diesel engine cylinder head. This engine uses rocker arms but
no pushrods.
The cylinder head is attached to the engine block by numerous bolts or studs. It
has several functions. The cylinder head seals the cylinders on the side opposite
to the pistons; it contains short ducts (the ports) for intake and exhaust and the
associated intake valves that open to let the cylinder be filled with fresh air and
exhaust valves that open to allow the combustion gases to escape. However, 2-
stroke crankcase scavenged engines connect the gas ports directly to the
cylinder wall without poppet valves; the piston controls their opening and
occlusion instead. The cylinder head also holds the spark plug in the case of
spark ignition engines and the injector for engines that use direct injection. All CI
engines use fuel injection, usually direct injection but some engines instead use
indirect injection. SI engines can use a carburetor or fuel injection as port
injection or direct injection. Most SI engines have a single spark plug per cylinder
but some have 2. A head gasket prevents the gas from leaking between the
cylinder head and the engine block. The opening and closing of the valves is
controlled by one or several camshafts and springsor in some enginesa
desmodromic mechanism that uses no springs. The camshaft may press directly
the stem of the valve or may act upon a rocker arm, again, either directly or
through a pushrod.
Engine block seen from below. The cylinders, oil spray nozzle and half of the main
bearings are clearly visible.
The crankcase is sealed at the bottom with a sump that collects the falling oil
during normal operation to be cycled again.The cavity created between the
cylinder block and the sump houses a crankshaft that converts the reciprocating
motion of the pistons to rotational motion. The crankshaft is held in place relative
to the engine block by main bearings, which allow it to rotate. Bulkheads in the
crankcase form a half of every main bearing; the other half is a detachable cap.
In some cases a single main bearing deck is used rather than several smaller
caps. A connecting rod is connected to offset sections of the crankshaft (the
crankpins) in one end and to the piston in the other end through the gudgeon pin
and thus transfers the force and translates the reciprocating motion of the
pistons to the circular motion of the crankshaft. The end of the connecting rod
attached to the gudgeon pin is called its small end, and the other end, where it is
connected to the crankshaft, the big end. The big end has a detachable half to
allow assembly around the crankshaft. It is kept together to the connecting rod
by removable bolts.
CYLINDER HEAD
The cylinder head has an intake manifold and an exhaust manifold attached to
the corresponding ports. The intake manifold connects to the air filter directly, or
to a carburetor when one is present, which is then connected to the air filter. It
distributes the air incoming from these devices to the individual cylinders. The
exhaust manifold is the first component in the exhaust system. It collects the
exhaust gases from the cylinders and drives it to the following component in the
path. The exhaust system of an ICE may also include a catalytic converter and
muffler. The final section in the path of the exhaust gases is the tailpipe.
4-stroke engine
1 Induction
2 Compression
3 Power
4 Exhaust
Section.
The top dead center (TDC) of a piston is the position where it is nearest to the
valves; bottom dead center (BDC) is the opposite position where it is furthest
from them. A stroke is the movement of a piston from TDC to BDC or vice versa
together with the associated process. While an engine is in operation the
crankshaft rotates continuously at a nearly constant speed. In a 4-stroke ICE each
piston experiences 2 strokes per crankshaft revolution in the following order.
Starting the description at TDC, these are:[8][9]
Intake, induction or suction: The intake valves are open as a result of the cam
lobe pressing down on the valve stem. The piston moves downward increasing
the volume of the combustion chamber and allowing air to enter in the case of a
CI engine or an air fuel mix in the case of SI engines that do not use direct
injection. The air or air-fuel mixture is called the charge in any case.
Compression:
In this stroke, both valves are closed and the piston moves upward reducing the
combustion chamber volume which reaches its minimum when the piston is at
TDC. The piston performs work on the charge as it is being compressed; as a
result its pressure, temperature and density increase; an approximation to this
behavior is provided by the ideal gas law. Just before the piston reaches TDC,
ignition begins. In the case of a SI engine, the spark plug receives a high voltage
pulse that generates the spark which gives it its name and ignites the charge. In
the case of a CI engine the fuel injector quickly injects fuel into the combustion
chamber as a spray; the fuel ignites due to the high temperature.
The pressure of the combustion gases pushes the piston downward, generating
more work than it required to compress the charge. Complementary to the
compression stroke, the combustion gases expand and as a result their
temperature, pressure and density decreases. When the piston is near to BDC the
exhaust valve opens. The combustion gases expand irreversibly due to the
leftover pressurein excess of back pressure, the gauge pressure on the exhaust
port; this is called the blowdown.
Exhaust:
The exhaust valve remains open while the piston moves upward expelling the
combustion gases. For naturally aspirated engines a small part of the combustion
gases may remain in the cylinder during normal operation because the piston
does not close the combustion chamber completely; these gases dissolve in the
next charge. At the end of this stroke, the exhaust valve closes, the intake valve
opens, and the sequence repeats in the next cycle. The intake valve may open
before the exhaust valve closes to allow better scavenging.
2-stroke engine
Main article: 2-stroke engine
The defining characteristic of this kind of engine is that each piston completes a
cycle every crankshaft revolution. The 4 processes of intake, compression, power
and exhaust take place in only 2 strokes so that it is not possible to dedicate a
stroke exclusively for each of them. Starting at TDC the cycle consist of:
Power: While the piston is descending the combustion gases perform work on
itas in a 4-stroke engine. The same thermodynamic considerations about the
expansion apply.
Compression: With both intake and exhaust closed the piston continues
moving upwards compressing the charge and performing a work on it. As in the
case of a 4-stroke engine, ignition starts just before the piston reaches TDC and
the same consideration on the thermodynamics of the compression on the
charge.
Radiators are heat exchangers used to transfer thermal energy from one medium
to another for the purpose of cooling and heating. The majority of radiators are
constructed to function in automobiles, buildings, and electronics.
Fig.2
The radiator is always a source of heat to its environment, although this may be
for either the purpose of heating this environment, or for cooling the fluid or
coolant supplied to it, as for engine cooling. Despite the name, most radiators
transfer the bulk of their heat via convection instead of thermal radiation (the
main exception to this rule being the radiators on spacecraft, see spacecraft
radiators below), though the term "convector" is used more narrowly; see
radiation and convection, below.
RADIATOR USE
Radiators are commonly used to heat buildings. In a central heating system, hot
water or sometimes steam is generated in a central boiler, and circulated by
pumps through radiators within the building, where this heat is transferred to the
surroundings.
AIR BRAKE
An air brake or, more formally, a compressed air brake system, is a type of
friction brake for
A compressed air brake system is divided into a supply system and a control
system. The supply system compresses, stores and supplies high-pressure air to
the control system as well as to additional air operated auxiliary truck systems
(gearbox shift control, clutch pedal air assistance servo, etc.
Supply system
Highly simplified air brake diagram on a commercial road vehicle (does not show
all air reservoirs and all applicable air valves).
The air compressor is driven by the engine either by crankshaft pulley via a belt
or directly from the engine timing gears. It is lubricated and cooled by the engine
lubrication and cooling systems. Compressed air is first routed through a cooling
coil and into an air dryer which removes moisture and oil impurities and also may
include a pressure regulator, safety valve and smaller purge reservoir. As an
alternative to the air dryer, the supply system can be equipped with an anti-
freeze device and oil separator. The compressed air is then stored in a reservoir
(also called a wet tank) from which it is then distributed via a four way protection
valve into the front and rear brake circuit air reservoir, a parking brake reservoir
and an auxiliary air supply distribution point. The system also includes various
check, pressure limiting, drain and safety valves.
Air brake systems may include a wig wag device which deploys to warn the driver
if the system air pressure drops too low.
Electrical Section
and direction of the induced current can be determined by Flemings right hand
rule. As per
so as to initiate the engines operation under its own power. Engines are
feedback systems which once
is used for this purpose and is not required once the system starts running. An
idle starter