'Combustion Engineering' is a course offered in the B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering program at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Unit 1
Thermodynamics of Combustion: Properties of mixtures - Combustion stoichiometry
- Heat of reaction and formation - adiabatic flame temperature - chemical equilibrium.
Chemical Kinetics: Elementary reactions: Rate of reactions and their functional
dependence - chain reactions, Pre-Ignition kinetics, Global reactions, Nitrogen Oxide
kinetics, Soot kinetics.
Unit 2
Combustion of gaseous and vaporized fuels: Laminar premixed flames - laminar flame theory - Turbulent premixed flames - Mechanism of flame stabilization - Explosion limits - Mechanism of flame quenching - Flammability and ignition - diffusion flames - flame propagation - Gaseous combustion system.
Unit 3
Combustion of liquid fuels: Spray formation - size distribution - fuel injectors, spray
dynamics - vapourisation of single droplets - spray combustion system.
Combustion of solid fuels: Solid fuel combustion mechanism - Drying of solid fuels
- Devolitilisation of solid fuels - Fuel-bed combustion – suspension burning - fluidized
bed combustion.
- Borman G. L. and Ragland K. W. - ‘Combustion Engineering’ - McGraw-Hill - 2005
- Turns S. R. - ‘An Introduction to Combustion’ – McGraw Hill - 1996
- Kuo K. K. - ‘Principles of Combustion’ - John Wiley & Sons - 1984
- Sharma S. P. and Chandramohan - ‘Fuels and Combustion’ - Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited - 1984
- Heywood J. B. - ‘Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals’ – McGraw Hill - 1993
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