Combustion is a chemical reaction in which hydrocarbons (fossil fuels) are burned, and the heat released is used to create different forms of energy, such as electricity, transportation fuel, and heat.

In practice, combustion chambers are designed so that an excess amount of air is always present to ensure that there is a high enough concentration of oxygen in contact with the fuel for complete and …

The percent of heat input to a combustion system that can be transferred to the load (furnace, boiler, air heater or incinerator) at a given exit flue gas temperature.

These are lecture notes for AME 60636, Fundamentals of Combustion, a course taught since 1994 in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Notre Dame.

2.1 Properties of Mixtures The thermal properties of a pure substance are described by quantities including internal energy, u, enthalpy, h, specific heat, cp, etc. Combustion systems consist of many …

• Assume ideal or stoichiometric combustion, meaning that all the carbon in the fuel gets converted to carbon dioxide in the combustion gases (exhaust gases).

Chemical kinetics is a fundamental aspect of combustion processes, governing the rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions that occur during combustion. This article provides a …