Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission

Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission

Combined State Engineering Service Special Recruitment Examination - 2007 and Combined State Engineering Service General Recruitment Examination – 2007

Agricultural Engineering

PAPER-I

(a) Fluid Mechanics : Fluid properties, units and dimensions, fluid statics, kinematics of fluid, continuity, Eulers and energy equation, Bernoulli's equation, impulse momentum principles, dimensional analysis and hydraulic similitude, flow in pipes and open channels and measurement of flow.

(b) Rural Engineering : Kinds of building materials-their properties, timber, brick work and RCC construction, design of slabs, simple and continuous beams, columns, footings, shaping design of foundation, planning and design of rural houses, cost estimation, farm roads, drainage system of villages, waste disposal and sanitary structures.

(c) Surveying, Levelling and Land Development : Linear measurements, chain surveying, compass surveying, plane table survey, theodolite surveying, contouring, land grading, survey and design, construction, procedure, contour bench levelling, land grading design and earth work computation, land levelling equipments.

(d) Process and Food Engineering : Unit operations in post-harvest processing, (cleaning and gracing, drying, pasteruization, concentration of milk, shalling/hulling, polishing, crushing/grinding of grains etc.), processing cereals, pulses, oilseeds, cattle food, fruits and vegetables, design of grain drying systems, milling operations, equiment and systems.

(e) Pumps : Design, construction, performance, selection, servicing and maintenance of reciprocating pumps, volute and diffuser type irrigation centrifugal pump, gear pumps, turbine pump, submersible pumps, and propeller pumps, hydraulic ram, jet pumps and air lift pump.

(f) Storage Engineering: Storage system and their management, changes instored products during storage, storage of seeds grains, and their products, air tight, non-air tight and other conventional storages, storage of fruits and vegetables, serated, refrigerated and controller atmosphere, design of storage structures including aeration systems and selection of storage location and related equipments.

PAPER-II

(a) Thermodynamics and Heat Engine: Concept of energy, temperature and heat, equation of state, first law of thermodynamics for closed and open system, pure substance and properties, second law of thermodynamics and entropy, boilers, mountings and accessories, boiler efficiency, steam engine, ranking cycle, indicator diagrams, steam turbine, I.C. engine, air standard, otto, diesel and Joule cycles.

(b) Tractor Power : sources of power on the farms, classification of tractors and I.C. engines, engine components, their construction, operating principles and functions, and engine systems, valves and valve mechanism, fuel and air supply, coolings, lubrication, ignition, starting and electrical system, engine governing, engine testing and performance, transmission systems of wheel and track type tractors, clutch, gear box, differential and final drive mechanism and tractor turning, tractor controls, tractor theory, steering and suspension, brakes, tractor power outlets, PTO, belt pulley etc. hydraulic circuits and controls, tractor hitching, category of hitches, mechanics of tractor i chasis, tractor stability, trouble shooting, tractor repair and maintenance, tractor testing and economics of tractor utilization.

(c) Farm Machinary: Importance and role of farm machines in the Indian Agriculture, farm machinery systems in use in India, functional requirements, principles of working, construction, operations, adjustments, repair and maintenance of tools, implements, and machinary operated by different sources of power available on Indian farm for tillage, seed bed prepartion, sewing and fertilizer application planting and transplanting weeding and intercultivation, spraying and dusting, harvesting, threshing and combining and transport. Analysis of forces and design of components of farm machinery. Crop and soil factors effecting machine performance and energy requirements.Selection of farm machinery and equipment for various farming systems and agro-ecological regions. Cost analysis and farm machinery management. Energy requirements for various field operations.

(d) Irrigation and Drainage : Water resources of India-surface and good water sources, utilization and economics, soil water plant relationship-water relation to soil, infiltration, moisture, evapotranspiration, water requirement and irrigation efficiencies, measurement of irrigation water weirs, Parshall flumes and orifices, water conveyance and control-design of irrigation field channels and canals, canal lining, design of irrigation channels-Lacey and Kennedy theory, most economical channel cross-section, design of under ground pipe line water distribution system, structures of under ground pipe line, water control and diversion structures, irrigation methods-theory and design of surface irrigation methods, drip irrigation, sprinkler irrigation and irrigation in salt affected soil.

Drainage investigations, hydraulic conductivity, drainable porosity, surface drainage, drainage of flat and sloping lands, open ditches design, alignment and construction, nature and extent of sub-surface drainage benefits of sub-surface drainage methods of layout of sub-surface drainage, design of subsurface drains, depth and spacing of sub-surface, drains, installation of the drains and drainage walls.

(e) Ground water Hydrology and Tubewell Engineering : Occurance and movement of ground water, steady and transient flow into wells, well interference, well drilling, design of well assembly and gravel pack, installation of well screens, completion and development of wells, surface and sub-surface exploitation of ground water, quality of modelling and project formulation.

(f) Soil and Water Conservation Engineering : Precipitation, geo-morphology of watersheds, hydrological analysis, mass curves, and hydrograph, flood routing, grasses waterways and their design, introduction to watershed management and planning, head water and flood control, coil erosion-water and wind, estimation of soil loss, design of erosion control practices, contour and strip cropping and bunding, terracing, wind breaks, shelter belts, Gullies and ravinge reclamation, energy, momentum principles of surface flow, functional requirements of erosion control structures, classifications of structure-temporary and permanent structures, design features of drop structures, chute spillways and pipe spillways, design of diversion structures, small earthen embankment, reservoirs and energy dissipators. cost estimation, seepage and theory of consolidation and strength and stability of slopes.