Combustion Reactions in a Furnace

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Fuel is fed to a furnace at and a molar flow rate of
. This fuel is one of these hydrocarbons: methane, ethane, acetylene, propane, or butane. The fuel is subject to a combustion reaction in the furnace:
, where
is the stoichiometric coefficient of the chemical species. An excess of oxygen entering at
is used for the combustion reaction, so that the conversion of the fuel is total. You can select the value of the inlet molar flow rate of oxygen and nitrogen. We apply the energy balance for reacting systems using the heat of reaction method [1]. The Demonstration determines:
Contributed by: Housam Binous, Ahmed Bellagi, and Brian G. Higgins (January 2015)
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[1] R. M. Felder and R. W. Rousseau, Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, 3rd ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
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