JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Review of Mechanical Properties: Fundamentals And Tensile, Hardness, And Impact Testing: The Tensile Test: Use of the Stress – Strain Diagram, True Stress and True Strain, The Bend Test for Brittle Materials, Hardness of Materials, Strian Rate effects and Impact Behaviour Heat Treatment of Steels and Cast Irons: Designations and Classification of Steels, Simple Heat treatments, Isothermal Heat treatments, Quench and Temper Heat treatments, Surface treatments, Weldability of Steel. Fracture Mechanics, Fatigue, And Creep Behaviour: Fracture Mechanics, The Importance of Fracture Mechanics, Microstructural Features of Fracture in Metallic Materials., Microstructural Features of Fracture in Ceramics, Glasses, and Composites, Fatugue, Result of the Fatigue test, Application of Fatigue test, Creep, Stress Ruptur, and Stress Corrosion, Evaluation of creep Behaviour

UNIT - II

Nuclear Power Plant and Their Materials: Nuclear reactor, pressurised reactor, breeder reactor. Materials for fuel, control rods, coolant, moderator, shielding. Effects of Radiation on Materials Properties: Effects of ,,  rays on creep, fatigue, tensile, and other properties of metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers, rubbers etc. Effects on electrical, electronic and magnetic behaviour of materials, Effects on crystal structure, grain size etc.

UNIT - III

Materials in Fuel cells and Solar Cells Electrocatalyst materials for low temperature fuel cells, Conductive membranes for low-temperature fuel cells, Materials for high temperature fuel cells, silicon, quantum dots for solar energy, nanomaterials for solar thermal energy and photovoltaic.

UNIT - IV

Materials in Thermal Power Generation Superalloys, steels, ceramics, TBC, hydrogen membrane materials, sensor and sensor materials, biomass, coal, flyash, etc.

UNIT - V

Energy storage-Artificial photosynthesis/solar to fuels, CO2 separation and utilization, Safer nuclear waste disposal, biofuels production, biological fuel cell technologies, reduction of energy use in manufacturing processes, Improved grid technologies, sustainable energy economy

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Introduction to Nuclear Science, Bryan, J. C., CRC Press.
• 2. Fundamentals of Radiation Materials Science, G.S. Was, Springer
• 3. Nuclear Reactor Materials and Applications, B.M. Ma, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.
• 4. Nuclear Reactor Materials, C.O. Smith, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
• 5. Fundamentals Aspects of Nuclear Fuel Elements, D.R. Olander,
• 6. Structural Materials in Nuclear Power Systems, J. T. A. Roberts, Plenum Press.
• 7. Handbook of Fuel Cells, Wolf Vielstich, Arnold Lamm, Hubert A. Gasteiger, and Harumi Yokokawa, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
• 8. Advanced power plant materials, design and technology, Edited by D Roddy, Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy No. 5 and CRC Press. M. Tech – I Year – I Sem. (Thermal Engineering) ADVANCED THERMAL ENGINEERING LAB
• 1. Performance test and analysis of exhaust gases of an I.C. Engine.
• 2. COP estimation of vapour compression refrigeration test.
• 3. Performance analysis of Air conditioning unit
• 4. Solar Flat Plate Collector
• 5. Evacuative tube concentrator
• 6. Performance analysis of heat pipe
• 7. Flame propagation analysis of gaseous fuels
• 8. Dryness fraction estimation of steam
• 9. Experiment on compressible fluid flow: (a) Nozzle performance unit, (b)Nozzle pressure distribution unit
• 10. Experiments on Turbo machines: (a) Performance analysis of Axial flow compressor (b) Performance analysis of Centrifugal blower.