Combustion technology : essentials of flames and burners / Vasudevan Raghavan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raghavan, Vasudevan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Combustion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

West Sussex, England : Wiley : Athena Academic, 2016.

Summary:

A comprehensive review of the fundamentals aspects of combustion, covering fundamental thermodynamics and chemical kinetics through to practical burners. It provides a detailed analysis of the basic ideas and design characteristics of burners for gaseous, liquid and solid fuels. End of chapter review questions help the reader to evaluate their understanding of both the fundamental as well as the application aspects. Furthermore, a chapter on alternative renewable fuels has been included to bring out the need, characteristics and usage of alternative fuels along with fossil fuels. A section on future trends in fuels and burners is also provided. Several key research articles have been cited in the text and listed in the references.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

1 Introduction

1.1. Combustion Process - Basic Definitions

1.2. Types of Fuels and Their Characteristics

1.2.1. Gaseous Fuels

1.2.2. Liquid Fuels

1.2.3. Solid Fuels

1.3. Modes of Combustion Processes

1.4. Emissions and Environment

1.5. Suggested Reading

Review Questions

2 Review of Combustion Thermodynamics and Kinetics

2.1. Combustion Stoichiometry

Analysis of Combustion Products

2.2. First Law Applied to Combustion

2.2.1. Standard Enthalpy

2.2.2. Standard Heat of Reaction

2.2.3. Adiabatic Flame Temperature

2.3. Second Law Applied to Combustion

2.3.1. Equilibrium Constant [6, 7, 12]

2.3.2. Determination of Equilibrium Composition

2.3.3. Equilibrium Flame Temperature

2.4. Chemical Kinetics

2.4.1. Types of Reactions

2.4.2. Reaction Mechanisms [11, 12]

2.4.3. Rate Equations

Reversible Reactions [12]

Net Rate of Individual Species in Multi-step Reactions

Steady State Approximation [12]

Partial Equilibrium Treatment [12]

3 Review of Combustion Phenomena

3.1. Premixed Flames [1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 12]

3.1.1. Laminar Premixed Flames and Flame Speed

Structure of a Premixed Flame

3.1.2. Basic Characteristics of Turbulent Premixed Flames

3.1.3. Stability of Premixed Flames

3.1.4. Quenching Distance

3.2. Non-premixed Flames

3.2.1. Laminar Jet Diffusion Flames

Structure of a Laminar Jet Diffusion Flame

3.2.2. Turbulent Diffusion Flames

3.2.3. Flame Height Correlations

Simplified Analysis of Diffusion Flames [8]

3.3. Flames from Condensed Fuels

3.3.1. Evaporation and Burning of Isolated Fuel Droplets

Droplet Evaporation

Droplet Combustion

3.3.2. Combustion of a Carbon Particle [2, 3, 6, 7, 12]

Review Questions.

4 Burners for Gaseous Fuels

4.1. Classifications

4.2. Co-flow Burners

4.3. Swirl Burners

4.4. Atmospheric Entrained Air Burners

4.5. Stability, Performance and Emission Characteristics

4.6. Design Procedure

4.7. Several Design Concepts

5 Burners for Liquid Fuels

5.1. Types of Liquid Fuel Burners

5.2. Basics of Atomization [10, 19]

5.2.1. Types of Atomizers [19]

Pressure Atomizers

Rotary Atomizers

Twin Fluid Atomizers

5.2.2. Correlations for Droplet Diameters

5.3. Introduction to Spray Combustion [9, 10, 19]

5.4. General Design Procedure

5.5. Operation of Liquid Fuel Burners

6 Solid Fuel Systems

6.1. Combustion of Solid Fuels [2, 20]

6.1.1. Grate Burners, Fluidized Beds and Pulverized Burners [2, 16, 20]

6.1.2. Design, Performance and Emission Characteristics

Grate Burners

Fluidized Bed Burners

Pulverized Burners

Mitigation of Emissions

6.2. Gasification of Solid Fuels [16, 20]

6.2.1. Types of Gasification Systems

6.2.2. Design, Performance and Emission Characteristics

7 Alternative Fuels

7.1. Production and Characterization of Alternative Fuels

7.2. Performance and Emission Characteristics

7.3. Future Scope

Suggested Reading

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 8, 2016).

ISBN:

1-119-24181-2

1-119-24176-6

1-119-24177-4

OCLC:

956701492