Combustion Engineering- MEC817/ME8151

Assignment #1

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1 Consider a stoichiometric mixture of n-Hexane and air. Calculate the
enthalpy of mixture for gaseous and liquid fuel at the standard-state
temperature (298.15 K) on a per-kmol-of fuel basis (kJ/kmolfuel), on a perkmol-of mixture basis (kJ/kmolmix), and on a per-mass-of-mixture basis
(kJ/kgmix).

2 The amount of the measured oxygen in the exhaust of a Benzene-fueled
combustor is 5% (volume). Consider a complete combustion without any
dissociation; find the Air-Fuel ratio (mass) for the reactant mixture.

3 For alcohols combustion write the stoichiometry balance equation for one
mole of CxHyOz . Determine the number of moles of air required to burn 1
mole of fuel. Find a relation for Air-Fuel ratio. Apply your results to
methanol (CH3OH) combustion with air.

4 A glass melting furnace is burning ethene (C2H4) in pure oxygen (not air).
The furnace operates at an equivalence ratio of 0.85 and consumes 15
Kmol/hr of ethene.


A. Determine the energy input rate based on the LHV and HLV of the
fuel, in kW.
B. Determine the O2 consumption rate in Kmol/hr and Kg/s.


5
A. Determine the adiabatic flame temperature for constant pressure
combustion of a stoichiometric propane-air mixture assuming
reactants at 298 K, no dissociation of the product, and constant
specific heats evaluated at 298K.
B. Repeat part A, but using constant specific heats evaluated at 2000 K.
Compare your results with that of part A and discuss.
C. Repeat part A, but now use property tables (Appendix A) to evaluate
the sensible enthalpies.
D. Repeat part A, but eliminate the unrealistic assumptions, i.e., allow
for dissociation of the products and variable specific heats. Use
HPFLAME(Appendix F) , or other appropriate software. Compare
and contrast the results of A and D. Explain why they differ.


A. Repeat part A of question 5, but for constant volume combustion.
Also determine the final pressure.
B. Use the condition given in part D in question 5, but calculate the
constant volume adiabatic flame temperature using UVFLAME
(Appendix F), or other appropriate software. Also, determine the
final pressure, Compare your results with those of part A and
discuss.