Thermal engineering notes for mechanical engineering students.Thermal engineering
almost covers important topics chapter wise :-

Chapter 1 Steam generators

1. Steam generators classification
2. conventional boilers
3. high-pressure boilers-lamont
4. loeffler and velox steam generators
5. performance and rating of boilers
6. equivalent evaporation
7. heat balance sheet
8. combustion in boilers
9. super critical boilers
10. fuel and ash handling
11. boiler draught

Chapter 2 Phase Change Cycles

1. Vapor Carnot cycle and its limitation
2. Rankin cycle
3. efficiency of ranking cycle
4. modified Rankin cycle
5. Reheat Rankine cycle
6. perfect regenerative cycle
7. Ideal and actual regenerative cycle
8. open and closed type of feed water heaters
9. regenerative-reheat cycle

Chapter 3 Gas dynamics

1. speed of sound
2. mach cone
3. stagnation properties
4. one-dimensional isentropic flow of ideal gases
5. area ratio as a function of mach number
6. mass flow rate and critical pressure ratio
7. effect of friction
8. velocity coefficient
9. isentropic flow of vapors
10. flow of steam through nozzles

Chapter 4 Air compressors

1. working of reciprocating compressor
2. compression processes
3. effect of clearance
4. volumetric efficiency real indicator diagram
5. isentropic & isothermal and mechanical efficiency
6. multi stage compression
7. inter - cooling
8. classification and working of rotary compressors

Chapter 5 Steam condensers, cooling towers and heat exchangers

1. Steam condensers
2. cooling towers and heat exchangers
3. types of condensers
4. back pressure and its effect on plant performance air leakage
5. various types of cooling towers
6. design of cooling towers
7. classification of heat exchangers
8. recuperates and regenerators
9. counter flow and cross flow exchangers
10. introduction to LMTD approach to design a heat exchange