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28th November 2014, 08:35 AM
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Re: HPCL Officers Trainee Exam Syllabus

Here is the Detailed Syllabus of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited Officers Trainee Examination Mechanical Engineering.

1.Engineering Mechanics
Free body diagrams & equilibrium; trusses & frames; virtual work;kinematics & dynamics of particles and of rigid bodies in plane motion, including impulse & momentum (linear and angular) and energy formulations; impact.

2.Engineering Materials
Structure and properties of engineering materials and their applications, heat treatment, stress-strain diagrams for engineering materials.

3.Strength of Materials
Stress and strain, stress-strain relationship and elastic constants, Mohr’s circle for plane stress and plane strain, thin cylinders, thickwalled vessels; shear force and bending moment diagrams; bending and shear stresses; deflection of beams; torsion of circular members; columns and struts; strain energy and impact loading; thermal stresses; Rotating Rims & Discs; Bending of Curved Bars.

4.Theory of Machines
Displacement, velocity and acceleration analysis of plane mechanisms, kinematic synthesis of mechanisms; dynamic analysis of slidercrank mechanism; gear trains; flywheels; static and dynamic force analysis; balancing of rotating components; governors.

5.Thermodynamics
Thermodynamic system & processes; Zeroth, First and Second laws of thermodynamics;; Carnot cycle. irreversibility and availability; behaviour of pure substances, ideal and real gases; calculation of work and heat in ideal and real processes; Rankine and Brayton cycles with modifications, analysis of thermodynamic cycles related to energy conversion; vapour refrigeration cycle, heat pumps, gas refrigeration, reverse Brayton cycle; moist air: psychrometric chart, basic psychometric processes.
6.Energy Conversion
Fuels and combustion; high pressure steam boilers; flow through nozzles; Gas turbines with inter-cooling, reheat and re generators,Steam turbines, velocity diagram, power output and efficiency, maximum blade efficiency of single stage impulse turbine, blade friction,compounding of impulse turbine; reaction turbine, degree of reaction, velocity diagram, power output, efficiency; losses in steam turbines, stage efficiency, overall efficiency and reheat factor; governing of steam turbines; steam condensers, condenser vacuum, sources of air leakage & its disadvantages.

7.Heat-Transfer:
Modes of heat transfer; one dimensional heat conduction, resistance concept, electrical analogy, unsteady heat conduction, fins; dimensionless parameters in free and forced convective heat transfer, various correlations for heat transfer in flow over flat plates and through pipes; thermal boundary layer; effect of turbulence; radiative heat transfer, black and grey surfaces, shape factors, network analysis; heat exchanger performance, LMTD and NTU methods.

8.Fluid Mechanics
Fluid properties; fluid statics, manometry, buoyancy; control-volume analysis of mass, momentum and energy; fluid acceleration; differential equations of continuity and momentum; Bernoulli’s equation; viscous flow of incompressible fluids; boundary layer; elementary turbulent flow; flow through pipes, head losses in pipes, bends etc.

9.Vibrations
Free and forced vibration of single degree of freedom systems; effect of damping; harmonically excited and transient vibrations; introduction to multi-degree of freedom systems; vibration isolation; resonance, critical speeds of shafts.

10.Design
Design for static and dynamic loading; failure theories; fatigue strength and the S-N diagram; principles of the design of machine elements such as bolted, riveted and welded joints, shafts, spur gears, rolling and sliding contact bearings, keys, couplings, brakes and clutches; Selection of Materials.

11.Fluid Machines
Pelton, Francis, propeller & Kaplan turbines; performance characteristics and governing of hydraulic turbines; introduction to Deriaz and Bulb turbines; selection of turbines; Centrifugal & axial pumps and fans, reciprocating pumps.
12.Joining:
Chemistry of welding, design of welding joints, pre- and post-heat treatment of welded joints; brazing and soldering; adhesive bonding.
13.Machining and Machine Tool Operations:
Mechanics of metal cutting and chip formation, single and multi-point cutting tools, tool geometry and materials, tool life and wear; principles of non-conventional machining processes; principles of work clamping, principles of design of jigs and fixtures.

14.Metrology and Inspection
Limits, fits and tolerances; linear and angular measurements; comparators; gauge design; interferometry; form and finish measurement; alignment and testing methods; tolerance analysis in manufacturing and assembly.

15.Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Basic concepts of CAD/CAM and their integration tools.
16.Production Planning and Control
Forecasting models, aggregate production planning, scheduling, materials requirement planning.
17.Inventory Control
Deterministic and probabilistic models; safety stock inventory control systems, economic order quantity.

18.Operations Research
Linear programming, simplex and duplex method, transportation, assignment, network flow models, simple queuing models, PERT and CPM.
19.Product Design and Development

Principles of good product design, tolerance design; quality and cost considerations; product life cycle; standardization, simplification, diversification, value engineering and analysis, concurrent engineering.
20.Industrial Safety

Introduction, types of accidents, causes and common sources of accidents, methods of safety, first aid.
21.Engineering Economy and Costing
Elementary cost accounting & methods of depreciation; break-even analysis, techniques for evaluation of capital investments, financial statements.
22.Management Information System

Value of information; information storage & retrieval system -database & data structures; knowledge based systems.
23.Pump and compressors

Steam turbine, Centrifugal pumps, Hydraulic turbine,Steam Turbine


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