CHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERS - LABORATORY

Ryan Angelo T. Abapo BSCPE-1

Name Course & Year

Section: M2

Experiment No. 3
HEAT OF COMBUSTION

Calculations: Show complete solutions.

 Graph: standard enthalpy of combustion versus number of carbon atoms

Questions:

1. Is a combustion reaction exothermic or endothermic? Explain your answer.

2. Why is combustion important to life?

3. Based on the plotted graph, what relationship can be drawn between the number of carbon
atoms and their standard enthalpies of combustion?

Give 5 examples of combustion in everyday life and explain.

A 1.55 gram sample

of pentanol, C
5H11OH is burned and produced a temperature

0
increase of 55 C in 200 g of water. Calculate the heat of combustion
pentanol.
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ANSWERS:
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 Table: Summary of Data

ΔH
Molar during ΔH˚comb ΔH˚comb
Substance Before heating After heating Difference mass combu (theoretical) (experimental)
kJ/mol kJ/mol % error
g/mol stion J

Mass of burnt
Alcohol A Mass of ethanol Mass of ethanol ethanol
+ alcohol lamp + alcohol lamp mf -904.8680597
Ethanol 46g/mol – 1368 33.85%
mA = 1.34g kJ/mol
(C2H6O) mi = 167.82g =166.48g

Initial
temperature Final temperature
Distilled T = Tf − Ti T 18g/mol 26359.2J
Water Ti = 29 Tf = 92 = 63

Mass of ethanol +
Alcohol B alcohol lamp Mass of ethanol Mass of
+ alcohol lamp mf burnt propanol -1928.72195
Propanol 60g/mol – 2021 4.57%
mi = 195.30g kJ/mol
(C3H8O) = 194.48g mB = 0.82g

Initial
temperature Final temperature
Distilled T = Tf − Ti 18g/mol 26359.2J
Water Ti = 29 Tf = 92 T = 63

Mass of ethanol +
Alcohol C alcohol lamp Mass of ethanol Mass of burnt
+ alcohol lamp mf butanol -3146.0981
Butanol 74g/mol – 2670 17.68%
mi = 194.78g kJ/mol
(C4H10O) = 194.16g mC = 0.62g
 Initial
Distilled Final temperature T = Tf − Ti
temperature 18g/mol 26359.2J
Water Tf = 92 T = 63
Ti = 29