Reverse combustion

To obtain the heat of combustion, reverse the first equation, doubie the second, and then add all three. When the coefficients of an equation are doubled, AH is doubled ... 

Equations (1) and (2) are the heats of formation of carbon dioxide and water respectively Equation (3) is the reverse of the combustion of methane and so the heat of reaction is equal to the heat of combustion but opposite in sign The molar heat of formation of a substance is the enthalpy change for formation of one mole of the substance from the elements For methane AH = —75 kJ/mol... 

Continuous recuperative furnaces employing metallic recuperators (heat exchangers) have been in use since the 1940s. Operation of these furnaces is simplified and the combustion process is more precisely controlled no reversal of air flow causes temperature variations. The recuperator metal must be caretiiUy selected because of chemical attack at high temperature. Recuperative furnaces are often used in the production of textile fiber glass because they maintain a constant temperature. 

Control Devices. Control devices have advanced from manual control to sophisticated computet-assisted operation. Radiation pyrometers in conjunction with thermocouples monitor furnace temperatures at several locations (see Temperature measurement). Batch tilting is usually automatically controlled. Combustion air and fuel are metered and controlled for optimum efficiency. For regeneration-type units, furnace reversal also operates on a timed program. Data acquisition and digital display of operating parameters are part of a supervisory control system. The grouping of display information at the control center is typical of modem furnaces. 

The in situ combustion method of enhanced oil recovery through air injection (28,273,274) is a chemically complex process. There are three types of in situ combustion dry, reverse, and wet. In the first, air injection results in ignition of cmde oil and continued air injection moves the combustion front toward production wells. Temperatures can reach 300—650°C. Ahead of the combustion front is a 90—180°C steam 2one, the temperature of which depends on pressure in the oil reservoir. Zones of hot water, hydrocarbon gases, and finally oil propagate ahead of the steam 2one to the production well. 

The oil 2one is fairly cool, and in a viscous oil reservoir this can result in Htde oil movement (Uquid blocking). Reverse combustion, in which oil ignition occurs near the production well, can avoid this problem. The combustion 2one moves countercurrent to the flow of air from the injection well. Oil flows through heated rock and remains mobile. Reverse combustion requires more air and consumes more oil than forward combustion. 

This is the reverse of the water-gas shift reaction in the production of hydrogen and ammonia (qv). Carbon dioxide may also be reduced catalyticaHy with various hydrocarbons and with carbon itself at elevated temperatures. The latter reaction occurs in almost all cases of combustion of carbonaceous fuels and is generally employed as a method of producing carbon monoxide. 

Convection heat transfer is dependent largely on the relative velocity between the warm gas and the drying surface. Interest in pulse combustion heat sources anticipates that high frequency reversals of gas flow direction relative to wet material in dispersed-particle dryers can maintain higher gas velocities around the particles for longer periods than possible ia simple cocurrent dryers. This technique is thus expected to enhance heat- and mass-transfer performance. This is apart from the concept that mechanical stresses iaduced ia material by rapid directional reversals of gas flow promote particle deagglomeration, dispersion, and Hquid stream breakup iato fine droplets. Commercial appHcations are needed to confirm the economic value of pulse combustion for drying. 

The circular burner shown in Fig. 27-17 is widely used in horizontally fired furnaces and is capable of firing coal, oil, or gas in capacities as tigh as 174 GJ/h (1.65 X 10 Btii/h). In such burners the air is often swirled to create a zone of reverse flow immediately downstream of the burner centerline, which provides for combustion stability. 

The thermal efficiency, the work output as a fraction of the fuel exergy (the maximum reversible work), is shown as no. 1 in the figure and is 0.368. The internal irreversibility terms, are shown as nos. 2, 3, and 4 in the diagram, for the combustion... 

The nomenclature introduced by Hawthorne and Davis [4] is adopted and gas turbine cycles are referred to as follows CHT, CBT, CHTX, CBTX, where C denotes compressor H, air heater B, burner (combustion) T, turbine X, heat exchanger. R and I indicate reversible and irreversible. The subscripts U and C refer to uncooled and cooled turbines in a cycle, and subscripts 1,2, M indicate the number of cooling steps (one, two or multi-step cooling). Thus, for example, [CHT] C2 indicates an irreversible cooled simple cycle with two steps of turbine cooling. The subscript T is also used to indicate that the cooling air has been throttled from the compressor delivery pres.sure. 

The cycle is complex but highly efficient. This high efficiency comes from the nature of the cycle (essentially a complex version of the intercooled, reheated, recuperative CICICIBTBTBTX plant described in Chapter 3). As Harvey et al. argue, the combustion irreversibility is reduced in the successive partial combustion steps, a move towards reversible isothermal combustion. 

CO2 is also recovered economically from the flue gases resulting from combustion of carbonaceous fuels, from fermentation of sugars and from the calcination of limestone recovery is by reversible absorption either in aqueous Na2COi or aqueous ethanolamine (Girbotol process). 

Selbst-umkehr, /. self-reversal (as of a spectral line), -unterbrecher, m. (Elec.) automatic interrupter, -verbrenmmg, /. spontaneous combustion, -verdauung, /. autodigestion autolysis, -vergiftung, /. autointoxication. 

Reversing the process yields an efficient method of energy storage. The process inputs combustion products such as carbon dioxide and water, and energy in tlie form of electricity or shaft power, and outputs oxygen and fuel (typically hydrogen or hydrocarbons). 

This is a horizontal shell boiler where the gas-reversal chamber from the combustion tube to the first pass of tubes is external to the rear tube plate and is formed by a refractory lined steel chamber. 

In wet-back boiler designs the rear wall of the furnace and the point at which the first-pass exit gases reverse direction is surrounded by water thus, no combustion chamber refractory is required and maintenance costs are reduced. 

One main advantage of such a power source is the direct transformation of the chemical energy of methanol combustion into electrical energy. Hence, the reversible cell potential, can be calculated from the Gibbs energy change, AG, associated with the overall combustion reaction of methanol (1), by the equation ... 

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