Combustion heat release

Indeed, in normal (slow) combustion, which may propagate only due to heat conduction, the heat flux is a quantity of the same order as the combustion heat released in unit time. The width of the front should be of the same order as the product of the chemical reaction time and the flame propagation velocity. 

Sample Disk Char Yield LOI Peak RHR (A) Mean RHR Mean Heat of Combustion Heat Released Mean Ext. Area Mean CO Yield... 

It was recognized by Zeldovich et al. [183,184] and Makhviladze and Rogatykh [185] that, if the conditions are such that the autoignition front moves into the unburned mixture at approximately the acoustic velocity, then the pressure wave generated by the combustion heat release can couple with the autoignition front, with mutual reinforcement of both fronts and very rapid reaction. When the autoignition wave moves much faster or slower than the acoustic velocity such coupling does not occur and the combustion is less intense. 

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Fuel switch. The choice of fuel used in furnaces and steam boilers has a major effect on the gaseous utility waste from products of combustion. For example, a switch from coal to natural gas in a steam boiler can lead to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of typically 40 percent for the same heat released. This results from the lower carbon content of natural gas. In addition, it is likely that a switch from coal to natural gas also will lead to a considerable reduction in both SO, and NO, emissions, as we shall discuss later. 

The heat released on combustion of a substance is called its heat of combustion The heat of combustion is equal to —AH° for the reaction written m the direction shown By convention... 

Given the mechanisms and temperatures, waste combustion systems typically employ higher percentages of excess air, and typically also have lower cross-sectional and volumetric heat release rates than those associated with fossil fuels. Representative combustion conditions are shown in Table 11 for wet wood waste with 50—60% moisture total basis, municipal soHd waste, and RDF. 

Figure 4 illustrates the trend in adiabatic flame temperatures with heat of combustion as described. Also indicated is the consequence of another statistical result, ie, flames extinguish at a roughly common low limit (1200°C). This corresponds to heat-release density of ca 1.9 MJ/m (50 Btu/ft ) of fuel—air mixtures, or half that for the stoichiometric ratio. It also corresponds to flame temperature, as indicated, of ca 1220°C. Because these are statistical quantities, the same numerical values of flame temperature, low limit excess air, and so forth, can be expected to apply to coal—air mixtures and to fuels derived from coal (see Fuels, synthetic). 

Vehicle Fa.ctors. Because knock is a chemical reaction, it is sensitive to temperature and reaction time. Temperature can in turn be affected either by external factors such as the wall temperature or by the amount of heat released in the combustion process itself, which is directiy related to the density of the fuel—air mixture. A vehicle factor which increases charge density, combustion chamber temperatures, or available reaction time promotes the tendency to knock. Engine operating and design factors which affect the tendency to produce knocking are... 

Common combustion reactions and heat releases for 0.454 kg of reactant under ideal combustion conditions are as follows, where Btu represents British thermal unit ... 

To analy2e premixed turbulent flames theoretically, two processes should be considered (/) the effects of combustion on the turbulence, and (2) the effects of turbulence on the average chemical reaction rates. In a turbulent flame, the peak time-averaged reaction rate can be orders of magnitude smaller than the corresponding rates in a laminar flame. The reason for this is the existence of turbulence-induced fluctuations in composition, temperature, density, and heat release rate within the flame, which are caused by large eddy stmctures and wrinkled laminar flame fronts. 

The physics and modeling of turbulent flows are affected by combustion through the production of density variations, buoyancy effects, dilation due to heat release, molecular transport, and instabiUty (1,2,3,5,8). Consequently, the conservation equations need to be modified to take these effects into account. This modification is achieved by the use of statistical quantities in the conservation equations. For example, because of the variations and fluctuations in the density that occur in turbulent combustion flows, density weighted mean values, or Favre mean values, are used for velocity components, mass fractions, enthalpy, and temperature. The turbulent diffusion flame can also be treated in terms of a probabiUty distribution function (pdf), the shape of which is assumed to be known a priori (1). 

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