2A1 Power Engineering Syllabus
1. ASME Code, Sections I & VIII, Calculations:
Design values to be computed for the following boiler and pressure vessel parts:
a. Cylindrical Components:
- How To Determine The Minimum Required Thickness Of Tubing
- How To Determine The MAWP Of Tubing
- How To Determine The Minimum Required Thickness Of Piping
- How To Determine The MAWP Of Piping
- How To Determine The Minimum Required Thickness Of A Boiler Drum
- How To Determine The MAWP Of A Boiler Drum
- How To Determine The Minimum Required Thickness Of A Header
- How To Determine The MAWP Of A Header
- How To Determine The Thickness Of A Blank, Unstayed Dished Head
- How To: Determine The Thickness Of A Blank Unstayed Full-Hemispherical Head
- How To: Determine The Minimum Required Thickness Of Circular Unstayed Flat Heads And Covers
- How To: Determine The Minimum Required Thickness Of Circular Unstayed Flat Heads And Cover When Attached By Bolts
- How To: Determine The Minimum Required Thickness Of Noncircular Unstayed Flat Heads And Covers
- Formed Heads
- Shells
- Welded covers
b. Openings and compensation:
- determine if compensation for openings in shells are required
- determine if compensation for openings in headers are required
- determine if compensation for openings in heads are required
c. Stayed surfaces:
- dimensions and locations of staybolts, ligaments and braced surfaces.
- How To: Determine Stayed Surface Calculations
d. Pressure relief valves:
- size and capacity.
- How To: Measure Pressure Relief Valve Capacity Dependent On Fuel Burned
e. Firetube Boilers:
- How To: Determine Corrugated Furnace Calculations
- How To: Determine Stayed Surface Calculations
- Stayed surfaces: maximum spacing of stays; areas of heads to be stayed; stresses in diagonal stays.
2. Industrial Administration
a. Legislation: a thorough knowledge of the jurisdictional Act and the Regulations under the Act.
b. Installations: factors and codes governing plant designs and layouts; contract specifications; working knowledge of the engineering and administration involved in plant erection; practical modifications of existing plant.
c. Management:
i. Functions and objectives of management.
ii. Personnel management: selection of staff; personnel training; motivating personnel; disciplining employees
iii. Planning; decision making; report writing.
iv. Plant maintenance; inspection; budgeting.
v. Safety programs.
3. Applied Mechanics
a. Velocity and acceleration:
- How To: Calculate Average Linear Velocity Or Speed
- speed, linear velocity and acceleration
- projectile motion, angular velocity and acceleration
- relative and absolute velocity
b. Mass, motion and inertia:
- force of gravity
- weight
- mass inertia
- accelerating force
- momentum
c. Work, power and energy:
- work, graphical representation
- indicated and brake horsepower
- potential and kinetic energy
- conservation of energy
- flywheel
d. Torque and angular motion:
- moment of inertia
- radius of gyration
- work done by torque
e. Motion in a circular path:
- centripetal acceleration; centripetal and centrifugal force
- balancing of rotating masses
- governors
f. Friction:
- coefficient of friction
- frictional force
- motion on horizontal and inclined planes
- the screw thread
- transmission of power by belt drives.
g. Moments:
- moments of forces
- couple
- centroids and second moments of area
h. Stress and strain:
- modulus of elasticity
- restricted expansion
i. Shearing forces and bending moments:
- sign conventions
- conditions of equilibrium
- simply supported beams and cantilevers
- concentrated and distributed loading
- mathematical and graphical solutions for shearing force and bending moment diagrams
j. Torsion:
- fundamental torsion equation
- relationship between torque, stress and horsepower
- maximum and mean torque
- coupling bolts
k. Pressure of liquids:
- density
- specific gravity
- pressure at any depth
- centre of pressure
- displacement
l. Flow of liquids:
- pressure head
- Bernoulli’s law
- Venturi meter
- flow through orifices
