Unit 1 Introduction to Combustion and Thermochemistry

6 lecture hours

• Review of Property Relations
• Reactant and Product Mixtures
• Adiabatic Flame Temperatures
• Chemical Equilibrium
• Equilibrium Products of Combustion
• Rudiments of Mass Transfer
• Liquid – Vapor Interface Boundary Conditions
• Droplet Evaporation

Unit 2 Chemical Kinetics and Mechanisms

6 lecture hours

• Global versus Elementary Reactions
• Elementary Reaction Rates
• Rates of Reaction for Multi – step Mechanisms
• The H2 – O2 System
• Carbon Monoxide Oxidation
• Oxidation of Higher Paraffins
• Methane Combustion
• Oxides of Nitrogen Formation

Unit 3 Coupling Chemical and Thermal Analysis of Reacting Systems

4 lecture hours

• Constant Pressure and Constant Volume Fixed Mass Reactor
• Well Stirred Reactor
• Plug Flow Reactor
• Applications to Combustion System Modeling

Unit 4 Simplified Conservation Equations for Reacting Flows

3 lecture hours

• Mass Conservation (Continuity)
• Momentum Conservation
• Energy Conservation
• The Concept of a Conserved Scalar

Unit 5 Laminar Premixed Flames

4 lecture hours

• Physical Description
• Simplified Analysis
• Factors Influencing Flame Velocity and Thickness
• Flame Speed Correlations for Selected Fuels
• Flammability and Ignition
• Flame Stabilization

Unit 6 Laminar Diffusion Flames – Burning Jets

4 lecture hours

• Non reacting Constant – Density Laminar Jet, Jet Flame Physical Description
• Simplified Theoretical Descriptions
• Flame Lengths for Circular – Port and Slot Burners
• Soot Formation and Destruction

Unit 7 Droplet Evaporation and Burning

4 lecture hours

• Simple Model of Droplet Evaporation and Droplet Burning
• One Dimensional Vaporization – Controlled Combustion
• Some Applications of Droplet Evaporation and Droplet Burning

Unit 8 Introduction to Turbulent Flows

• Definition of Turbulence
• Length Scales in Turbulent flows
• Analyzing Turbulent Flows
• Axisymmetric Turbulent Jet 3 7

Unit 9 Turbulent Premixed and Non premixed Flames

5 lecture hours

• Definition of Turbulent Flame Speed
• Structure of Turbulent Premixed Flames
• Wrinkled Laminar Flame Regime
• Distributed Reaction Regime
• Flamelets in Eddies Regime
• Flame Stabilization
• Jet Flames
• Applications of Turbulent Premixed Flames

Unit 10 Burning of Solids

• Coal Fired Boilers
• Heterogeneous Reactions
• Burning of Carbon
• Coal Combustion 3 7