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MIN-540 Lecture 1

1) Combustion involves chemical reactions that release heat from fuels combining with oxidizers like oxygen. 2) We need to study combustion for energy production from fossil fuels, pollution control from energy sources, and energy utilization from renewables like industrial burners and household heaters. 3) Experimental, theoretical, numerical, and combined approaches are used to study combustion through conservation equations and constituent disciplines like thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, and fluid mechanics.

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MIN-540 Lecture 1

1) Combustion involves chemical reactions that release heat from fuels combining with oxidizers like oxygen. 2) We need to study combustion for energy production from fossil fuels, pollution control from energy sources, and energy utilization from renewables like industrial burners and household heaters. 3) Experimental, theoretical, numerical, and combined approaches are used to study combustion through conservation equations and constituent disciplines like thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, and fluid mechanics.

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MIN-540

Combustion
Ajit K Dubey
Lecture 1: Why, what and how?
Combustion
• Heat release from chemical reactions
• Fuel + oxidizer = products + heat

https://www.britannica.com/science/Bunsen-burner/images-
videos#/media/1/84759/246192
Source: worldenergydata.org
Power generation in India
RES: Renewable energy sources
Problems:
1) May not be available when
required
2) Fluctuating in supply
3) Cannot be stored as it is

Huge requirement of energy


storage technologies

Example: Battery, pumped


storage, hydrogen, ammonia, e-
fuels, thermal etc.

Source (mospi.gov.in) Energy statistics India 2023, Chapter 2


Why do we need to study combustion?
• Energy production through fossil fuel
• Pollution control for energy sources
• Energy utilization for renewables
Why do we need to study combustion? [2]
• Industrial burners and furnaces
• Household burners and heaters

By ANDRITZ Maerz GmbH - ANDRITZ Maerz GmbH, CC BY 3.0,


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Source: Borosil website
Why do we need to study combustion? [3]
Google news search for fire
ØFire as a safety hazard
ØUncontrolled and
unwanted combustion
ØAt large scale
Why do we need to study combustion? [4]
• Explosions
• Blast waves
• High energy materials
• Propellants and explosives

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(archive), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1

Source: India times


How do we study combustion
• Experimental methods • Conservation equations
• Theoretical • Mass (species)
• Momentum
• Numerical
• Energy
• Combination of these

• Constituent disciplines • Some targets


• Thermodynamics • Find a combustion parameter
• Chemical kinetics
• Fluid mechanics
• Design an equipment
• Heat and mass transfer • To simulate a combustion process
• CFD (Numerical methods for stiff PDEs) • Understanding and interpreting
• Instrumentation and diagnostic techniques observed combustion phenomena
• Mathematics • Determining effect of
• Acoustics individual/several parameter/s on
• Compressible flows the combustion process
Classification of combustion problems

Source: POC book, Kuo


Combustion modeling

Source: POC book, Kuo

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