Fuels and Combustion
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The official GTU curriculum for Fuels and Combustion (subject code BE05005061) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 5 divides the course into 7 units, covering 53 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE05005061)Unit 1 Introduction
- Fuel: Definition and its Types
- History and production of solid
- liquid and gaseous fuels
- present scenario and consumption pattern of fuels
- definitions of fundamental properties of fuels and their measurements techniques
Unit 2 Solid fuels
- Coal origin
- its classification
- composition, and properties
- Coal mining
- preparation, and washing
- Combustion of coal and coke making
- different types of coal combustion techniques
- coal tar distillation
- coal liquefaction: direct and indirect liquefaction
- coal gasification
- oxidation and hydrogenation
- Efficient use of solid fuels
Unit 3 Liquid Fuels
- Origin and classification of petroleum
- properties & testing of petroleum products
- petroleum refining in India
- liquid fuels from other sources
- storage and handling of liquid fuels
Unit 4 Gaseous Fuels
- Origin and classification of gaseous fuels: Synthesis of natural gas, producer gas, water gas, biogas, LPG, refinery gas, hydrogen
- acetylene other fuel gases
- purification and quality enhancement of gaseous fuels and their applications
Unit 5 Synthetic fuels
- Agro fuels and its properties related to combustion
- handling, and storage and application
- Bio-Fuels: types of bio-fuels
- production processes and technologies and its applications
Unit 6 Stoichiometry of combustion
- Estimation of minimum amount of air required for a fuel of known composition
- theoretical and actual combustion processes - Air fuel ratio
- estimation of dry flue gases for known fuel composition
- calculation of the composition of fuel and excess air supplied from exhaust gas analysis
- dew point of products
- Calorific value of fuels
- adiabatic flame temperature
- mechanism and kinetics of combustion
- oxy-rich combustion
Unit 7 Combustion Technology
- Stoichiometry and thermodynamics of combustion
- calculation of heat of formation and heat of combustion
- first law analysis of combustion of oil, combustion of coal
- combustion of gas, flue gas analysis
- flame properties
- draft system
- combustion appliances such as gas burners and its functional requirement
- gas burner classification
- stoker firing
- pulverized system of firing
- fluidized bed combustion process and its controls
- Introduction to different types of furnaces: heat treatment furnaces
- industrial furnaces
- process furnaces, and kilns
- Applications of batch and continuous furnaces
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