RAJALAKSHMI ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Thandalam, Chennai-602105

LESSON PLAN

Faculty Name

S.Mariappa

Subject Name

Year

III

Degree & Branch

B.E. Automobile Engineering

Automotive Fuels And Lubricants

Code

AT2305

Semester

Objective:

To explain the following in Fuels and Lubricants used in automobiles

Manufacture of fuels and lubricants

Fuels for i.c. engines
Combustion of fuels
Theory of lubrication
Lubricants

TEXT BOOKS
1. V.Ganesan, Internal Combustion Engines Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.

Newdelhi
2. M.L.Mathur and P.Sharma A course in internal combustion engines,
Dhanpatrai Publications
REFERENCES
1. Brame, J.S.S. and King, J.G. Fuels Solids, Liquids, Gaseous.
2. Francis, W Fuels and Fuel Technology, Vol. I & II
3. Hobson, G.D. & Pohl.W- Modern Petroleum Technology
4. A.R.Lansdown Lubrication A practical guide to lubricant selection
Pergamon press 1982.
5. Raymond.C.Gunther Lubrication Chilton Book Co., - 1971.

Planned

Actual

Period/

Period

Hours

/Hours

Book
S.No

Unit

Topic(s)

Book
No.

1
2

MANUFACTURE OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS

1

Introduction

Types of fuels

Structure of petroleum,

refining process,

thermal and catalytic cracking,

products of refining process,

manufacture of finished automotive lubricants

10

Review

manufacture of lubricating oil base stocks

Test

10
11

FUELS FOR I.C. ENGINES

12

11

II

Types of Fuels

13

12

II

Liquid and gaseous fuels

14

13

II

Heating value of fuels, higher and lower

heating values

15

14

II

chemical structure of hydro-carbons SI Engine

fuels

16

15

II

17

16

II

18

17

II

Volatility characteristics, desirable characteristics

of SI Engine fuels
SI Engine fuels knock rating andadditives
alternate fuels for SI engines
CI engine fuels, desirable characteristics,
cetane rating

19

18

II

alternate fuels for CI engines, biodiesels

20

19

II

Review

21

20

II

Test

22

COMBUSTION OF FUELS

23

21

24

22

25

23

Stoichiometry - calculation of theoretically correct

air required for combustion of liquid fuels
Stoichiometry - calculation of theoretically correct
air required for combustion gaseous fuels,
volumetric and gravimetric analysis of the dry
products of combustion,

26

24

mass of dry gas per kg of fuel burnt

27

25

mass of carbon in the exhaust gas,

28

26

mass of carbon burnt to carbon-monoxide per kg T

of fuel,

29

27

heat loss due to incomplete combustion

30

28

exhaust gas analysis by Orsat apparatus.

31

29

32

30

Review
Test

33

THEORY OF LUBRICATION

34

31

Introduction to Engine friction

35

32

total engine friction

36

33

effect of engine variables on friction,

37

34

hydrodynamic lubrication

38

35

elasto hydrodynamic lubrication

39

36

boundary lubrication

40

37

Hydrostatic lubrication bearing lubrication,

41

38

functions of the lubrication system

42

39

43

40

44

Review
Test
LUBRICANTS

45

41

Specific requirements for automotive lubricants,

46

42

47

43

oxidation deterioration and degradation of

lubricants
additives and additive mechanism

48

44

synthetic lubricants

49

45

classification of lubricating oils

50

46

properties of lubricating oils

51

47

tests on lubricants

52

48

53

49

Grease, classification, properties, testing of

grease.
Review

54

50

Test

T Text Book / R Reference Book

Total Hrs: 50