AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
CREDIT HOURS ENGINEERING PROGRAMS (CHEP)
ENERGY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY PROGRAM (ERGY)

Fall 2019 Assignment - 1

MEP 363: Combustion and Furnaces

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Stoichiometry of Combustion
(1) A car engine has a dual fuel system which contains gasoline C8H18 and natural gas CH4. Calculate the
air/fuel ratio required for complete combustion when each fuel is used alone.

(2) An industrial boiler is fired with Diesel fuel (C16H34) and operates on complete combustion with an oxygen
concentration of 3 mole percent in the dry flue gases. Determine the operating air/fuel ratio, the excess
air factor and the equivalence ratio.

(3) A petroleum natural gas flare employs combustion of the natural gas with the surrounding air. The
volumetric analysis of exhaust gases on a dry basis was obtained at a certain operating moment as
follows:
Gas CO2 O2 N2
Mole Percent 8 6.7 85.3

After a period of time, the gas flare received a higher gas flow rate which kept the flame stable within
the surrounding atmosphere. The dry basis volumetric analysis of the combustion products in this case
was found to be as shown below:
Gas CO2 CO N2
Mole Percent 10.2 2 87.8

If the supply rate of the air involved in combustion for both cases is considered to be the same, what is
the percent change in the natural gas flow rate?

(4) A domestic stove is switched from burning liquefied petroleum gas (whose volumetric composition is 60%
Butane [C4H10] and 40% Propane [C3H8]) into burning natural gas [CH4]. Indicate the direction of change in
the air opening that is needed to fulfill such switch.

(5) An aircraft is operated by a number of gas turbine combustion chambers inside which the aviation fuel of
kerosene C12H26 (dodecane) is combusted. The flame is stabilized in the first zone via the primary air. The
analysis of the dry gases that issue from the first zone indicates that the CO mole fraction is 0.02 and the
O2 mole fraction is 0.05. The gas stream leaving the primary air reaction zone is to be mixed with a
secondary amount of air to eliminate the CO (as shown in the sketch below). It is decided that an O2 mole
fraction of 10.9% in the mixture of dry exhaust gases across the plane passing through point (A) will
ensure that no CO remains. What must be the mass flow rate ratio of the secondary air and the fuel?