UNIQUE SERIES AKTU Syllabus
BAG060

Hydraulic drives and control

L-T-P3-0-0 Credits3 Session2024-25 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

B.Tech Agricultural Engineering · Sem 6 (Departmental Elective-III)

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Pre-requisites: Basic concepts of fluid mechanics and tractor systems.

Syllabus

5 units
Unit1

Unit 1

Hydraulic Basics: Pascal's Law, Flow, Energy, Work, and Power. Hydraulic Systems, Color Coding, Reservoirs, Strainers and Filters, Filtering Material and Elements.

Unit2

Unit 2

Accumulators, Pressure Gauges and Volume Meters, Hydraulic Circuit, Fittings and Connectors. Pumps, Pump Classifications, operation, performance, Displacement, Design of Gear Pumps, Vane Pumps, Piston Pumps.

Unit3

Unit 3

Hydraulic Actuators, Cylinders, Construction and Applications, Maintenance, Hydraulic Motors. Valves, Pressure-Control Valves, Directional- Control Valves, Flow-Control Valves, Valve.

Unit4

Unit 4

Installation, Valve Failures and Remedies, Valve Assembly, Troubleshooting of Valves Hydraulic Circuit Diagrams and Troubleshooting, United States of American Standards Institute USASI Graphical Symbols Tractor hydraulics, nudging system, ADDC.

Unit5

Unit 5

Pneumatics: Air services, logic units, Fail safe and safety systems Robotics: Application of Hydraulics and Pneumatics drives in agricultural systems, Programmable Logic Controls (PLCs).

Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Understand the basic principles of hyd. power system.K2
  2. CO2Analyze and design the components of hydraulic system.K4
  3. CO3Familiar with applications and maintenance of Hydraulic system.K2
  4. CO4Illustrate troubleshooting of Valves Hydraulic Circuit.K2&K3
  5. CO5Understand the application of pneumatic and hydraulic power in other agricultural machines.K2

Suggested Reading

  1. Anthony Esposito. Fluid Power with applications. Pearson Education.
  2. Blackburn, J.F., G. Reethof and J.L. Shearer. Fluid Power Control. New York, Technology Press of M.I.T. and Wiley.
  3. 3Blaine W. Andersen. The analysis and design of pneumatic systems. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
  4. Ernst, W. Oil Hydraulic Power and its Industrial applications. New York: Mc Graw Hill.
  5. Fitch, Jr., E.C. Fluid Power Control Systems. Mc Graw Hill, New York.

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 35 of the original AKTU PDF.

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