Power Hydraulics and Fluid Machinery

Mainly you can get following learning outcomes after completing this course.

• Introduction to fluid power

• Applications of fluid power systems

• Advantages and Disadvantages of hydraulic systems.

• Properties of hydraulic fluids

• Pumps

• Valves (Directional control valves , Pressure control valves , Flow control valves)

• Actuators(single acting, double acting.)

• Identify all the symbols used in hydraulic schematics

• Understand various hydraulic circuits

• Understand and explain hydraulic schematics effectively

• Design a hydraulic circuit for performing a desired function

• Analyze the function of each hydraulic circuit in an application.

• Understand and explain the various causes of failure in a hydraulic system

• Understand best maintenance practices of hydraulic systems

• Closed Loop VS Open Loop hydraulic control

• Electro- Hydraulic Flow Control

• Control valves (pressure, Flow and etc)

• Electrohydraulic servo valve

• Solenoid valve

• Types of Solenoid valve

• What is a pump

• Classification of Pumps

• Positive displacement pumps and Characteristics

• Non-positive displacement pumps

• Gear pumps ( External and Internal)

• Lobe Pump

• Vane Pump ( Balanced and Unbalanced)

• Screw Pumps

• Reciprocating Pumps

• Plunger Pumps

• Diaphragm Pumps

• Piston Pump Classification and Working principle

• Conversion of Kinetic Energy to Pressure Energy

• Main Parts of a Centrifugal Pump

• Pump head (Static suction head (hs), Static discharge head (hd), Friction head (hf))

• Pump Performance Curve

• Operating point of pump

• Pump Affinity Law's

• Pump cavitation

• Net positive suction head

• Classification of Hydraulic Turbines

• Pelton Wheel

• Francis Turbine

• Kaplan Turbine

• Tutorials.

Hydraulics is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids. At a very basic level, hydraulics is the liquid counterpart of pneumatics, which concerns gases. Fluid mechanics provides the theoretical foundation for hydraulics, which focuses on the applied engineering using the properties of fluids. In its fluid power applications, hydraulics is used for the generation, control, and transmission of power by the use of pressurized liquids. Hydraulic topics range through some parts of science and most of engineering modules, and cover concepts such as pipe flow, dam design, fluidics and fluid control circuitry. The principles of hydraulics are in use naturally in the human body within the vascular system and erectile tissue.[2][3] Free surface hydraulics is the branch of hydraulics dealing with free surface flow, such as occurring in rivers, canals, lakes, estuaries and seas. Its sub-field open-channel flow studies the flow in open channels.