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B.E. (Automobile Engineering) Alternate Fuels and Emission Control Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first and second years are NEP 2020 syllabi; the third and fourth years are still examined on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for them this year.

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Semester 7 · Fourth Year AE

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Syllabus for Alternate Fuels and Emission Control

Semester 7 · Fourth Year AE

Module 1: Introduction

  • Overview of Alternative Fuel, History of Fuel, Need for alternate fuels, availability and comparative properties of alternate fuels, classification of alternative fuels.

Module 2: Gaseous Fuels - CNG, LPG, BIOGAS, LNG & HCNG: Availability, properties, modifications required in SI engines, performance and emission characteristics, storage, handling & dispensing, safety aspects.

  • Synthetic fuels: Di-Methyl Ether (DME), Diethyl Ether (DEE), and Gas to Liquid (GTL): Availability, properties, modifications required in CI engines, performance and emission characteristics, storage, handling and dispensing, safety aspects. Hydrogen and Fuel cells - Production methods, properties, performance and emission characteristics, storage and handling, safety aspects, classification, description of fuel cell systems, fuel cell components, properties of fuel cells,

Module 3: Liquid Fuels

  • Sustainable mobility, emission scenario & norms, emission sources & effects, greenhouse gases & control, petroleum reserves & refining, fuel properties & their effects on performance & emission characteristics Bio fuels: Biodiesel, Ethanol and straight vegetable oils (SVO), Manufacturing process of alcohol, blending of methanol and ethanol, types of vegetable oils for engine application, their effects on performance & emission characteristics.

Module 4: Emissions From SI Engines

  • Emission formation in S.I. engines, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitric oxide & lead, effects of design & operating variables on emission formation, controlling of emission formation in engines, thermal reactors, catalytic converters, charcoal canister control for evaporative emission, positive crank case ventilation system

Module 5: Emissions From CI Engines

  • Diesel combustion, stages, direct & indirect combustion, emission formation, particulate matter & smoke, effect of operating variables on emission formation, PM & NOx trade-off,Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR), air injection, cetane number effect, emission after-treatment devices like DOC, DPF, SCR & NOx Adsorber. proportional to number of respective lecture hours mentioned in the curriculum.

Text Books

  • 1 ALTERNATIVE FUELS - Concepts, Technologies and Developments by S.S. Thipse, Jaico Publications.
  • 2 Ganesan.V, Internal Combustion Engines, Tata McGraw Hill, 1994.
  • 3 Crouse.W.M, Anglin.A.L., Automotive Emission Control, McGraw Hill 1995.
  • 4 Samir Sarkar (2009) Fuels and Combustion: Third Edition, Universities Press, India.
  • 1 Springer.G.S, Patterson.D.J, Engine Emissions, pollutant formation, Plenum Press, 1986
  • 2 Patterson, D.J, Henin.N.A, Emissions from Combustion engines and their Control, Anna Arbor Science, 1985. Linden.D, Handbook of Batteries and Fuel Cells, McGraw Hill, 1995.
  • 3 Maxwell et al, Alternative Fuel: Emission, Economic and Performance, SAE, 1995
  • 4 Watson, E.B., Alternative fuels for the combustion engine, ASME, 1990
  • 5 Bechtold, R., Alternative fuels guidebook, 1998.
  • 6 Joseph, N., Hydrogen fuel for structure transportation, SAE, 1996.
  • 7 Holt and Danniel, Fuel cell powered vehicles: Automotive technology for the future, SAE, 2001.
  • 8 Vora K C & Ghosh B, Monograph on Automotive Catalytic Converter, ARAI Publication, 1995. NPTEL Links: https://nptel.ac.in/courses/112/103/112103262/ 17

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Automobile Engineering) under REV-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

The complete syllabus

This subject is cut from the University circular for its year. Open a document here if you want the whole thing rather than a single subject.

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