Introduction “Fire” this word always gives goosebumps to an automobile enthusiast as for him the word fire resembles with the power, of course it is true, fire is the most important source of energy from the birth of the mother earth. In an engine as we know fire which is produced by the spark plug […]
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Introduction Heard about electricity generation by hydropower plants, know what makes them so efficient that they are lightening up our houses. Yeah that’s the whole effort we have put-in to design our turbines, and make them more and more efficient. Now days an efficient turbine can utilize up-to 90% of the water’s potential energy. Although
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Introduction Ever wonder, why do we need an explosion inside an engine cylinder? The answer would be we require to cause a movement of piston in order to get rotational output from the crankshaft, but let’s just ponder if it is just about the piston movement so why do we depend on explosion? We can
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Introduction Going for a long ride, check for water in your vehicle, wait what don’t they run on diesel or petrol. Yeah right why we need water then. Water is circulated in engine to keep it in optimum operating temperature range. Yes, we have got an optimum temperature range, we cannot cool it down too
How Does a Radiator Work? A Radiator has a number of flat and thin pipes arranged horizontally one below the other. Water flows through these pipes along their length. But how does the water flowing through these pipes gets cool so fast? So to increase the heat exchange from water to air, we have fins
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Introduction “Brakes are as important as an engine for an automobile” very rightly said as if we require an engine to run a vehicle than we also require brakes to stop it, This statement also resembles with the Newton’s first law, we all are familiar with. As we know now a day in light vehicles
Introduction Honda Activa or Honda aviator, It’s so difficult, isn’t it? we always face this kind of confusion while purchasing a vehicle, it’s always being so difficult to choose between the vehicle with almost same configuration but different braking system, In above example Honda Activa and Honda Aviator both are having almost same engine configurations
Introduction “Physics, the blessing as well as the curse”, We the engineers are quite familiar with this quote as we receives both the blessings as well as the curse from the nature when we develop a technology or a machine, specifically when we talk about an automobile vehicle the nature’s physics is the biggest challenge
Introduction Knowing the fact that fossil fuels are not going to last forever, solar power generation seems to be leading the path in clean and renewable energy generation among all other renewable sources of energy production. Almost every home has started relying on batteries for power backup. China which once seems world’s largest polluter has
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Introduction Vehicle dynamics is an integral part of an automobile vehicle and is as important as the power train of a vehicle. If we need a power train to run a vehicle we also need vehicle dynamics systems to keep the vehicle running with stability, as we know suspension system is the part of vehicle
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Introduction The introduction of the internal combustion engine in 1884 by Edward Butler was the boom in the world of machines. As engine is the machine that gives rise to the invention of many machines like a automobile vehicle, airplanes, marine vehicles etc. that we are still using today. The most beautiful thing about the
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Introduction Coal may be black in color but it light’s up about 60% of our country. Coal has been a reliable source of energy for India from years. About 72% of the total coal extracted, goes into generating electricity in coal power plant and it is available in abundance at different locations of India. It
Introduction People are using the energy of flowing water from thousands of years, and today it is the most powerful source of clean, renewable, and most affordable energy. America is been using this energy for over a hundred years for now. And what makes this source renewable is the water, water evaporates back to the
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Introduction We often talk about the power output when it comes to internal combustion engine, from over a century various research have been conducted to study and to modify the factors affecting the power output of an IC engine, the configuration of the engine like CC, is decided after these various research. Now let’s just
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Introduction When we talk about word nuclear, what strikes our mind is an immense amount of energy. Keeping in mind the material handling complexities and safety concerns, it’s still been most abundantly used source of energy for producing power all around the world. Extracting power from nuclear fuel has now become a need, to meet
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Introduction Wind energy is a renewable source of energy and available all around the globe in abundance. So to harness this natural resource in the best possible way wind turbines are designed . The wind turbine can operate from 15km/hr to 90km/hr of wind speed and are being vastly used all around the world. The
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Introduction “Human comfort zone” how will you define it? As an automobile engineer we will define it as, an atmosphere that provides relax and causes less fatigue to a human which can be achieved by an air conditioning of the particular cabin that includes maintaining the cabin’s temperature between 20 to 25 degree centigrade and
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Introduction We always discuss “The air fuel mixture combust to cause the movement of the piston which in turn causes crankshaft rotation” also “The residual of the combustion goes out from the exhaust” but have you ever wonder, How does this intake and exhaust occurs?, How the timing of this intake and exhaust is controlled?
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Introduction “Torque” and “Bhp” we often hear these terms whenever we talk about an automobile vehicle. A car that has to go off-road i.e. 4*4 SUVs, requires good amount of torque and on the other hand the car which has to achieve high speed i.e. supercars, requires good amount of power or speed, Now the
Introduction “Luxury demands human comfort” this thought gave rise to many inventions as decreasing human efforts in operating machines is the new topic of research when it comes to automobile vehicles various brands like Rolls Royce, Maserati etc. Are well known for their luxury and are ready to spend millions on the luxury and comfort
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Introduction “Automatic is the new need of the 21st century” yes it is, when it comes to human comfort various researches is being done to decrease the human effort in operating the machines though the manual transmission has its own benefits but some people find it causes fatigue to the driver in operating the clutch
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Introduction Modification in a component keep occurring until the ideal or near to ideal state of the component is not achieved so with this thought in mind engineers keep on researching on manual transmission to get the best out of it, which leads the researchers from the General Motors to the development of synchromesh gearbox
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Introduction The introduction of transmission in 1894 gave a new platform to the research minds of the century and forced them to focus their research on the transmission system as it was the new boom in the automobile industry. So the detailed study of the sliding mesh gearbox started and raised many questions, Why the
Introduction “Old is gold” very rightly said as when it comes to an automobile old inventions are the source of improved technology which we are using today. One of those inventions is the Sliding mesh gearbox which gave rise to a very essential system of an automobile i.e. transmission system or gearbox. But from where
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Introduction Manual Transmission (MT) or Automatic Transmission (AT), which is best? This is always being a hot topic for debate when it comes to choosing a vehicle for different purposes, as both the transmission systems have advantages over each other which gives rise to many questions like why the Formula Cars being the best automobile
Introduction “Shift the gear” Got thrills?, Of Course you do, we the automobile enthusiasts always get goosebumps when it comes to gear up or gear down, but ever wonder how is it done? What happens when we pull or push the gear lever? Why there is some cars with no clutch pedals? What makes a
Geothermal power plant uses hydrothermal energy of the earth for heating as well as electricity production. What is this hydrothermal energy resource? So it is an energy source which has both water and heat, the heat beneath the earth (magma) is used to heat the water present inside the earth. The hydrothermal resources are bring
Introduction “Mechanical component shows wear and tear” this theory wakes up an engineer’s mind and forces him to innovate more to achieve an ideal system, Since the moving mechanical components cause wear and tear which we count as a limitation of the component, the questions arise, Can we avoid the use of distributor in an
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Introduction “From a little spark may burst a flame” by Dante Alighieri, Rightly said that a spark is required to start a flame and in an automobile, since there is a conversion of chemical energy (i.e. air-fuel mixture) into mechanical energy i.e. (crankshaft rotation) spark is essential which is responsible for the combustion, but from
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The pattern is the replica of the device which is the output of the casting process. This when molded in sand forms mold. After filling the mold with the molten metal there is a formation of casting. Patterns play a very important role in casting as they decide the quality as well as perfection in
