Aims

To provide the theoretical and practical background in the use of fuels via a physico-chemical approach to combustion and to present the technological aspects relative to fuel combustion.

Main themes

Origine, nature, and conditioning of fuels. Mass and energey balance laws of combustion. Physical chemistry and chemical kinetics of combustion: reacting schemes and phenomenology of the modes of combustion. Fuel combustion technologies: conception and design of combustion heat transfer equipment.

Content and teaching methods

Energetic study of fuels and their use :
Origins and formation of fuels.
Conditioning and specification of fuels.
Global mass and energy balance laws in combustion.
Control and diagonstic techniques.

Physical chemistry and chemical kinetics of combustion :
Chemical mechanicsms and conditions for propagation.
Explosivity and flammability limits, flame temperature.
Chemical reaction rates, deflagrations and detonations.
Pollutant formation. Measurement techniques.

Combustion and heat transfer technologies :
Combustion of gases: burners for premixed and non-premixed combustion.
Combustion of liquds: pulverization and diffusion.
Combustion of solids: fixed beds, pulverization, fluidized beds.
Use of heat: heat transfer basics.

The balance laws of mass and of energy and the physico-chemical calculations are the
objects of exercises and laboratory experiments. In these experiments emphasis is placed upon the phenomenology of combustion, control methods and diagnostics and upon operating methods.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisites :
None

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