Kerala PSC Exam Guide

This page will give you details of Category Number 215/2016 Kerala PSC examination for the post of Assistant Engineer in Ground Water Department which is going to be conducted in the month of December 2017. You can find here the syllabus of AE Ground Water Kerala PSC Exam, useful study tips, and study materials, question paper and answer key discussions and expected cut off for the exam. This exam is going to be the one of the important examination for Mechanical Engineering job aspirants as it is the last exam being conducted after a series of Mechanical Engineering AE exams conducted by Kerala PSC Cutoff Marks Cutoff - 47.33 Marks Shortlisted Candidates -  Click here>> Date & Time of Assistant Engineer Ground  Water  Department Kerala PSC Examination 1st December 2017, 7.30 AM to 9.15 AM Last acceptable reporting time in the exam center - 7.30 AM Syllabus of  Assistant Engineer Ground  Water  Department Kerala PSC Examination ...

This article will give you short notes on various social welfare legislation and programs which are important for Kerala PSC examination. The topics covered here include social service legislation like Right to Information Act (RTI), Right to Education Act (RTE), Prevention of atrocities against women and children, food security act and social welfare programs like employment guarantee program, ICDS, TRYSEM, IRDP, DWRA, RLEGP, IAY, JRY, MWS, PMRY, BSY, GKY, SAY, SGSY, Antyodaya Anna Yojana, PGSY, SGRY, Swajaldhara, VAMBAY, PGY, NFWP, Bharat Nirman, PMAGY etc. The following social welfare schemes and programs are frequently asked in Kerala PSC examinations. ICDS Integrated Child Development Scheme ICDS was started in the year 1975 by the then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi . It is accredited as the World's biggest integrated initiative for child welfare . World Bank & UNICEF used to provide assistance to this scheme. The scheme was initiated during the 5th five-year...

This article will give you the basic differences and conceptual comparison between creep test and tensile test. Creep Strength and Tensile Strength are two major mechanical properties of a material. Creep test is used to find out the behavior of the material under creep loading and tension test which is usually done in a Universal Testing Machine (UTM) is carried out to find out the behavior of the material under tensile loading. You are requested to have the basic knowledge of stress-strain curve and creep curve before reading this article. The basic comparison is as follows. Creep Test Vs Tension Test Creep is a slow and progressive permanent deformation of a material at constant stress and at a constant temperature of about 0.4 times the melting point of the material. Whereas in the tension test, the deformation is not that slow and progressive and stress is not constant. It is gradually increasing and we are not much concerned about the temperature factor. Both the spe...

Regenerative Rankine cycle and Brayton cycle with regeneration are provided for increasing efficiency in steam power plant and gas turbine power plant respectively. This article will reveal the basic difference between the two. As you are all aware, in Rankine cycle, the working fluid is water and it changes its state to form steam and you will find a vapor dome in the TS diagram of Rankine cycle. Steam tables and Mollier charts are used to find the property values in Rankine cycle. However, in Brayton cycle, the working fluid is air which does not undergo any phase change. We are treating air as an ideal gas and the equation of state of an ideal gas is used to find the property values in Brayton cycle. Regenerative arrangement in both these cases is accomplished by providing heat exchangers which utilize the high temperature of the expanded gases in the turbine exhaust. Brayton cycle can be classified into closed Brayton cycle and open Brayton. Among this, only closed Brayton cycl...

This article will give you the basic difference between Second Law Efficiency and Isentropic Efficiency in Thermodynamics. Both these concepts are very important in association with 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. The same concept is asked for many interviews including Indian Engineering Services and viva questions. The conceptual answer for the same is not available in any of the Thermodynamics textbooks. Before reading the explanation of this topic, you are advised to go through the concept of 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, Availability, and Irreversibility. Both  Second Law Efficiency & Isentropic Efficiency revolves around the same idea but is interpreted or characterized differently. Both are proportional to each other and gives a measure of the degree of irreversibility. The difference between the two can be conceptually understood by the following Temperature-Entropy diagram. Fig. Illustration of Second Law Efficiency & Isentropic Efficiency Consider this T...

This article gives you the basic comparison between reheat Rankine cycle and regenerative Rankine cycle. This comparison will help you to find out distinguishable features of reheat Rankine cycle and regenerative Rankine cycle. Prerequisite before reading this article is the basic idea of Rankine cycle, PV and TS diagram of reheat Rankine cycle and regenerative Rankine cycle. The differences of reheat cycle compared to regenerative cycle are discussed as follows. All the steam turbine thermal power plants what we are seeing today is centered around the qualitative thermodynamics of Rankine cycle, which is the vapor standard cycle for the same. It consists of two reversible adiabatic process two isobaric processes and the working fluid undergoes a phase change. The topic of our discussion, that is regeneration and reheating is a method of increasing efficiency of Rankine cycle. Note that reheat need not give higher efficiency and it is primarily attached to the power plan...

If you are a graduate in Mechanical Engineering or a diploma holder in Mechanical engineering, and you want to know the job opportunities for you in Kerala through various Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) exam, then this article can really help you. Many of you may be aware that, there is recruitment process through Kerala PSC exams for Mechanical engineers in various Government departments in Kerala, but you might be unaware of the job profiles for which the recruitment are carried out. This article gives some lights to those categories of people. The details of KPSC Mechanical jobs for the eligible aspirants are discussed in the following paragraphs. For a graduate in Mechanical Engineering, some of the core Mechanical engineering job profiles through Kerala PSC recruitment are as follows. The major four categories of jobs are being discussed. Assistant Engineer in various departments of  Govt. of Kerala  like Irrigation, Legal Metrology, Harbour Engineering,...