CHE3163 - Fuels Problem Set 1. A stream of 50 kg/h of methane is burned with 1116 kg/h or air.

Determine the percentage excess air used in the burner and the percentage by volume of oxygen in the flue gas at 25C if the fuel is completely combusted. 2. A refinery fuel gas has the composition: 75 (volume) % butane, 10% propane, 15% ethane. (a) Determine the flue gas temperature if this fuel is burned with 15% excess air. (b) Determine the percentage excess air required in the combustion of this fuel to achieve a flue gas temperature of 1500C, assuming complete combustion. (See attached specific heat capacity data for high temperatures. Note Sinnott Appendix D data is not suitable for combustion temperatures) 3. Ethane has a Higher Heating Value of 1.56 x 106 kJ/kmol. Estimate the Lower Heating Value of ethane and compare your value with published value. 4. A flue gas from the combustion of propane in 15% excess air has 1% CO by volume. Determine the percentage fuel carbon that is converted to CO. 5. What is the difference between proximate and ultimate analysis of coal composition. 6. Define fuel ratio of coal 7. What are the two sources of NOx formation in fuel combustion? 8. List the Environmental impacts of flue gases 9. An oil stream flowing at 3kg/s is to be heated from 50C to 200C in a furnace fired by butane fuel gas with 100% excess air. Flue gases leave the furnace at 250C. Determine the required butane flow rate to the furnace. Why is your answer an underestimate? (Mean specific heat capacity of the oil over this temperature range is 2800 J/kg.K).

Specific Heat Capacities at High Temperatures