MEE503 HWK – Combustion Dr. N.

Zakhia
Problem 1:
The ultimate analysis of a fuel is given to be:
Carbon: 83.7%, Hydrogen: 12.7%, Sulphur: 0.7%, Nitrogen: 1.7%, Oxygen: 1.2%.
The combustion air has a dry bulb temperature of 27C, and a wet bulb temperature of 21C. there is
30% excess air. Assume complete combustion. Find:
a) The total volume of combustion products at 200 C and 1.013 bar.
b) The dry flue gas analysis based on CO2, O2, and N2.
Problem 2:
A 200 m high and 4 m diameter stack emits 1000 kg/sec of 100 C gases into 5 C air. The prevailing
wind velocity is around 50 km/hr. the atmosphere is of neutral stability condition. Assume Cp = 1.005
kJ/kg.K. Calculate the height of the gas plume.
Problem 3:
A gas turbine is supplied with a fuel of C.V. of 20 MJ/kg and gravimetric analysis of 65%C, 25% H2,
10% O2. The compressor takes in air at 1 bar, 27 C and compresses it isentropically to 4 bar. The
exhaust gases heat the air leaving the compressor before it enters the combustion chamber. Assume
the regeneration effectiveness is 78%, the turbine is isentropic, and the analysis of the dry exhaust
gas is 6% CO2, 1.5% CO. consider, for air Cp = 1.005 kJ/kg.K,  = 1.4 and for the combustion products
Cp = 1.15 kJ/kg.K,  = 1.33. Determine:
a) The max temperature in the cycle
b) The thermal efficiency of the plant
c) The specific fuel consumption.
d) The dew point temperature of the combustion products if the mixture were cooled at 1 atm.
would condensation occur if the products are cooled to Tref?
e) The irreversibility of this reaction per kmol fuel
Problem 4:
A boiler uses 2000 kg/h of coal. The temperature of air supplied is 300 K. the average temperature of
the flue gas leaving the chimney is 650 K. the 33-m high steel chimney produces a draught of 20 mm
of water column. Determine:
a) The quantity of air supplied per kg of coal
b) The draught in terms of column of hot gases
c) The base diameter of the chimney, assuming
that 10% of the theoretical draught is used for
creating the flow velocity of gases through the
chimney
Problem 5:
The figure provides data for a boiler and air preheater
operating at steady state. Methane (CH4) entering the
boiler at 25C, 1 atm is burned completely with 170%
of theoretical air. Ignoring stray heat transfer and
kinetic and potential energy effects, determine the
temperature, in C, of the combustion air entering the boiler from the preheater.
Problem 6:
A gaseous mixture of ethane (C2H6) and the theoretical amount of air at 25C, 1 atm enters a reactor
operating at steady state and burns completely. Combustion products exit at 627C, 1 atm. Heat
transfer from the reactor takes place at an average surface temperature Tb. For Tb ranging from 25 to
600C, determine the rate of exergy destruction within the reactor, in kJ per kmol of fuel. Kinetic and
potential energy effects are negligible. Let Tamb = 25C .
Problem 7:
Liquid octane at 25C, 1 atm enters a well-insulated reactor and reacts with air entering at the same
temperature and pressure. The products of combustion exit at 1 atm pressure. For steady-state
operation and negligible effects of kinetic and potential energy, determine:
a) The rate of entropy production, in kJ/K per kmol of fuel, for complete combustion with
 the theoretical amount of air
 400% theoretical air. What do you deduce? Justify.
b) What would be the rate of exergy destruction for both cases?
c) Determine the change of Gibbs function of this reaction for the theoretical amount of air.
Problem 8:
Liquid propane (C3 H8) enters a combustion chamber at 25°C at a rate of 0.05 kg/min where it is
mixed and burned with 50 percent excess air that enters
the combustion chamber at 7°C, as shown in the figure.
An analysis of the combustion gases reveals that all the (L)
hydrogen in the fuel burns to H2O but only 90 percent of
the carbon burns to CO2, with the remaining 10 percent
forming CO. kinetic and potential effects are neglected.
If the exit temperature of the combustion gases is 1500
K, determine:
a) Write the actual reaction of this combustion process
b) Compute the air-fuel ration of this process.
c) The mass flow rate of air
d) The rate of heat transfer from the combustion chamber.
e) The maximum flame temperature.
f) The rate of entropy production of the chemical reaction. Assume Tboundary = 100C
g) The exergy destruction of this reaction, in kW.