Farm Power & Machinery

Mechanising the farm. Engine components and combustion behind tractors, tractor power and traction, and implements from tillage to harvest.

• Engine Components — Learn the parts of a reciprocating engine — block, head, pistons, rings, connecting rods, crankshaft, camshafts, valves, timing drive, lubrication and cooling — plus key geometry (bore, stroke, compression ratio) and slider-crank kinematics and forces.
• Combustion — Combustion turns fuel's chemical energy into pressure. Learn air–fuel ratio and lambda, spark-ignition flame propagation and knock, compression-ignition diesel combustion, heat-release and mass-fraction-burned (Wiebe), octane and cetane, and airflow-to-power calculations.
• Farm Power & Machinery — Mechanising the farm. Learn farm power sources (human, animal, tractor, electric), tractor types and power outputs (engine, PTO, drawbar), traction and wheel slip, tillage implements and draft, sowing and planting, spraying and plant protection, harvesting and threshing (combine harvesters), field capacity and efficiency, machinery cost analysis and custom hiring, ergonomics and safety, and electric/autonomous tractors — with Python for field capacity, draft, tractor power and fuel use.