National Power Training Institute conducts CET for the selection of eligible students to the Post Graduate Diploma Course in Thermal Power Plant Engineering. B.Tech/B.E degree holders in any of the disciplines of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Power Engineering, Control and Instrumentation Engineering can join the course. NTPI PGDC CET includes 3 separate sections, first two are general across engineering streams and third part is technical and specific to the area of graduation.

Detailed Syllabus of NTPI PGDC CET (Mechanical Engineering)

Part I

• Basic mathematics
• Basic Science
• Language
• Analytical Reasoning
• Data interpretation

Part II

• General Engineering

Part III

Mechanical engineering

Engineering Mechanics

• Free body diagrams and equilibrium
• Trusses and frames
• Virtual work
• Kinematics
• Dynamics of particles and of rigid bodies in plane motion
• Energy formulations

Strength of Materials

• Stress and strain
• Stress-strain relationship
• Mohr’s circle for plane stress and plane strain
• Thin cylinders
• Shear force and bending moment diagrams
• Bending and shear stresses
• Deflection of beams
• Torsion of circular shafts
• Euler’s theory of columns
• Strain energy methods
• Thermal stresses
• Theory of Machines
• Velocity and acceleration analysis of plane mechanisms
• Displacement
• Gear trains
• Dynamic analysis of slider-crank mechanism
• Flywheels

Machining and Machine Tool Operations

• Mechanics of machining
• Single and multi-point cutting tools
• Tool geometry and materials
• Tool life and wear
• Economics of machining
• Principles of non-traditional machining processes
• Principles of work holding
• Principles of design of jigs and fixtures

Vibrations

• Free and forced vibration of single degree of freedom systems
• Effect of damping
• Critical speeds of shafts.
• Vibration isolation
• Resonance

Design

• Design for static and dynamic loading
• Failure theories
• Fatigue strength and the S-N diagram
• Principles of the design of machine elements
• Bolted riveted and welded joints
• Spur gears
• Shafts
• Rolling and sliding contact bearings
• Brakes and clutches

Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences

Fluid Mechanics

• Fluid properties
• Fluid statics
• Control-volume analysis of mass momentum and energy
• Fluid acceleration
• Differential equations of continuity and momentum
• Bernoulli’s equation
• Viscous flow of incompressible fluids
• Elementary turbulent flow
• Flow through pipes

Heat-Transfer

• Modes of heat transfer
• Resistance concept
• One dimensional heat conduction
• Electrical analogy
• Dimensionless parameters in free and forced convective heat transfer
• Unsteady heat conduction
• Fins
• Various correlations for heat transfer
• Thermal boundary layer
• Effect of turbulence
• Network analysis
• Heat exchanger performance - LMTD method, NTU method

Thermodynamics

• Zeroth First and Second laws of thermodynamics
• Thermodynamic system and processes
• Carnot cycle
• Irreversibility and availability
• Behavior of ideal and real gases
• Properties of pure substances
• Calculation of work and heat in ideal processes
• Analysis of thermodynamic cycles related to energy conversion

Applications

Power Engineering

• Steam Tables
• I.C. Engines
• Refrigeration and air-conditioning
• Reverse Brayton cycle
• Vapour refrigeration cycle
• Heat pumps
• Gas refrigeration
• Moist air
• Psychometric chart
• Basic psychometric processes
• Turbo machinery

Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering

• Structure and properties of engineering materials
• Heat treatment
• Stress-strain diagrams for engineering materials

Metal Casting

• Design of patterns
• Solidification and cooling

Forming

• Plastic deformation
• Fundamentals of hot and cold working processes
• Load estimation for bulk (forging rolling extrusion drawing) and sheet (shearing deep drawing bending)
• Metal forming processes
• Principles of powder metallurgy

Production Planning and Control

• Scheduling
• Materials requirement planning
• Forecasting models
• Aggregate production planning

Joining

• Physics of welding
• Brazing and soldering
• Adhesive bonding
• Design considerations in welding

Metrology and Inspection

• Limits fits and tolerances
• Linear and angular measurements
• Comparators
• Gauge design

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

• Basic concepts of CAD/CAM and their integration tools

Inventory Control

• Safety stock inventory control systems
• Deterministic and probabilistic models

Operations Research

• Linear programming
• Simplex method
• Duplex method

Syllabus of NTPI PGDC CET exam is different for different streams of engineering. Nevertheless, the first two parts remain common for all candidates.