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This document contains 6 questions regarding combustion calculations. Question 1 asks to determine the fuel mass flowrate and operating air-fuel ratio for a gas turbine engine operating at full load. Question 2 asks to determine the operating air-fuel ratio and equivalence ratio for a natural gas-fired industrial boiler with a given oxygen concentration in the flue gases. Question 3 asks to determine standardized enthalpy and mass fractions for a gas mixture at a given temperature and mole fractions.

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Assignment Combustion

This document contains 6 questions regarding combustion calculations. Question 1 asks to determine the fuel mass flowrate and operating air-fuel ratio for a gas turbine engine operating at full load. Question 2 asks to determine the operating air-fuel ratio and equivalence ratio for a natural gas-fired industrial boiler with a given oxygen concentration in the flue gases. Question 3 asks to determine standardized enthalpy and mass fractions for a gas mixture at a given temperature and mole fractions.

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Assignment 1

Q.1 A small, low-emission, stationary gas turbine engine operates at full load (3950 kW) at
an equivalence ratio of 0.286 with an air flowrate of 15.9 kg/s. The equivalent composition of
the fuel (natural gas) is C1.16H4.32. Determine the fuel mass flowrate and the operating air–fuel
ratio for the engine.

Q.2 A natural gas–fi red industrial boiler operates with an oxygen concentration of 3 mole
percent in the flue gases. Determine the operating air–fuel ratio and the equivalence ratio.
Treat the natural gas as methane.

Q.3 A gas stream at 1 atm contains a mixture of CO, CO2, and N2 in which the CO mole
fraction is 0.10 and the CO2 mole fraction is 0.20. The gas-stream temperature is 1200 K.
Determine the standardized enthalpy of the mixture on both a mole basis (kJ/kmol) and a
mass basis (kJ/kg). Also determine the mass fractions of the three component gases.

Q.4 (a) Determine the upper and lower heating values at 298 K of gaseous n-decane, C10H22,
per kilomole of fuel and per kilogram of fuel. The molecular weight of n-decane is 142.284.
(b) If the enthalpy of vaporization of n-decane is 359 kJ/kg fuel at 298 K, what are the upper
and lower heating values of liquid n-decane?

Q.5 Estimate the constant-pressure adiabatic flame temperature for the combustion of a
stoichiometric CH4–air mixture. The pressure is 1 atm and the initial reactant temperature is
298 K.

Use the following assumptions:

1. “Complete combustion” (no dissociation), i.e., the product mixture consists of only CO2,

H2O, and N2.

2. The product mixture enthalpy is estimated using constant specific heats evaluated at

1200 K ( ≈ + 0 5 (Ti +Tad) , where Tad is guessed to be about 2100 K).

Q.6 Estimate the constant-volume adiabatic flame temperature for a stoichiometric CH4–air
mixture using the same assumptions as in Q 5. Initial conditions are Ti = 298 K, P =1 atm (=
101,325 Pa).

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