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Combustion Reaction Basics

This chapter discusses combustion reactions and their types. Combustion is a reaction with oxygen. There are two main types - complete combustion, which uses all reactants, and partial combustion, which does not. The chapter also covers wet and dry basis, explaining that wet basis includes water while dry basis excludes it in composition calculations. Stack gas compositions are provided as examples to demonstrate converting between wet and dry basis.

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Combustion Reaction Basics

This chapter discusses combustion reactions and their types. Combustion is a reaction with oxygen. There are two main types - complete combustion, which uses all reactants, and partial combustion, which does not. The chapter also covers wet and dry basis, explaining that wet basis includes water while dry basis excludes it in composition calculations. Stack gas compositions are provided as examples to demonstrate converting between wet and dry basis.

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ChE 1101

Fundamentals of Chemical
Engineering
Chapter 4.8
Combustion Reaction

16-Jul-20 M.G. Toufik Ahmed, Department of ChE, KUET 1


What is combustion?
Reaction with oxygen

Types: Complete
1. Complete combustion
2. Partial Combustion
Partial

16-Jul-20 M.G. Toufik Ahmed, Department of ChE, KUET 2


Wet Basis & Dry Basis
Composition with water is wet basis and without water is dry basis

Dry Basis Composition


N2= 60 mol
CO2= 15 mol N2= = 0.706
O2= 10 mol
H2O= 100 – 60 – 15 – 10 = 15 mol CO2= = 0.176

O2= = 0.118

16-Jul-20 M.G. Toufik Ahmed, Department of ChE, KUET 3


If stack gas is 1 mol, H2O will be 0.07 mol
So, in 1 mol stack gas,
H2O= 0.07 mol
Dry gas = 1- 0.07 = 0.93 mol

So, wetN2=
basis
65stack gas
IfIfstack
dry gas is10.93
gas is mol, mol, H2O
H2O will beis0.07
=0.07 mol composition:
CO2= 14
mol N2= 65/107.53
CO= 11 =
CO2=O2=
14/107.53=
10
If dry gas is 1 mol, H2O is =0.07/0.93 mol
So, in 1 mol stack gas, CO= 11/107.53=
H2O= 7.53
O2= 10/107.53=
H2O= 0.07ismol
If dry gas Total = 107.53 mol
100 mol, H2O is =100*(0.07/0.93) mol = 7.53 mol H2O= 7.53/107.53 =
Dry gas = 1- 0.07 = 0.93 mol

16-Jul-20 M.G. Toufik Ahmed, Department of ChE, KUET 4

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