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This document provides instructions for several calculation problems related to combustion and fire dynamics: 1) Calculate the enthalpy of formation of propane at 25°C using given equations and data tables. 2) Calculate the enthalpy of formation of n-pentane using a given combustion reaction and data tables. 3) Calculate the adiabatic flame temperatures for stoichiometric n-pentane/oxygen, n-pentane/air mixtures, and a 1.5% n-pentane in air mixture. 4) Calculate the equilibrium composition of a hydrogen-oxygen combustion reaction at 2000K and 1 atmosphere. 5) Determine the adiabatic flame temperature

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m1 Problems

This document provides instructions for several calculation problems related to combustion and fire dynamics: 1) Calculate the enthalpy of formation of propane at 25°C using given equations and data tables. 2) Calculate the enthalpy of formation of n-pentane using a given combustion reaction and data tables. 3) Calculate the adiabatic flame temperatures for stoichiometric n-pentane/oxygen, n-pentane/air mixtures, and a 1.5% n-pentane in air mixture. 4) Calculate the equilibrium composition of a hydrogen-oxygen combustion reaction at 2000K and 1 atmosphere. 5) Determine the adiabatic flame temperature

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Module 1 ­ Assignment

NOTE: all references to equations, figures, tables are from the text and not online 
materials

From An Introduction to Fire Dynamics:

1.6 Work out the enthalpy of formation of propane at 25C (298 K) from Equation 1.20 
using data contained in Tables 1.13 and 1.14.

1.7 Given that the stoichiometric reaction for the oxidation of n­pentane to carbon 
monoxide and water, i.e.
n­C5H12 + 8 O2  5 CO2 + 6 H2O

calculate  H f  (C5H12) from the data in Tables 1.13 and 1.14.
298

1.12 Calculate the adiabatic flame temperatures for the following mixtures initially at 
25C assuming that dissociation does not occur.
(a) stoichiometric n­pentane/oxygen mixture;
(b) stoichiometric n­pentane/air mixture;
(c) 1.5% n­pentane in air (lower flammability limit, see Chapter 3).

From An Introduction to Combustion:

(Chapter 2)
2.47 Calculate the equilibrium composition for the reaction H2 + ½ O2   H2O when the 
ration of number of moles of elemental hydrogen to elemental oxygen is unity. The 
temperature is 2000 K, and the pressure is 1 atmosphere.

2.63 A furnace uses preheated air to improve its fuel efficiency. Determine the adiabatic 
flame temperature when the furnace is operating at a mass air­fuel ratio of 16 for air 
preheated to 600 K. The fuel enters at 300 K. Assume the following simplified 
thermodynamic properties:

Tref  300 K
MW fuel  MWair  MW prod  29 kg / kmol
c p , fuel  c p ,air  c p , prod  1200 J / kg  K
h f0,air  h 0f , prod  0
h 0f , fuel  4 107 J / kg

Extra Credit:

The exhaust of a carbureted automobile engine, which is operated slightly fuel­rich, has 
an efflux of unburned hydrocarbons entering the exhaust manifold. Assume that all of the
hydrocarbons are equivalent to ethylene (C2H4) and all the remaining gases are equivalent
to inert nitrogen (N2). On a molar basis there are 40 mol of nitrogen for every mole of 
ethylene. The hydrocarbons are to be burned over an oxidative catalyst and converted to 
carbon dioxide and water only. In order to accomplish this objective, ambient (298 K) air 
must be injected into the manifold before the catalyst. If the catalyst is to be maintained 
at 1000 K, how many moles of air per mole of ethylene must be added if the temperature 
of the manifold gases before air injection is 400 K and the composition of air is 1 mol of 
oxygen to 4 mol of nitrogen?

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