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Course Name	Turkish	Yanmanın Temelleri
	English	Combustion Fundamentals
Course Code	MOT 587E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Alper Tolga Çalık
Course Objectives		1. To provide essential knowledge on combustion of gaseous and liquid fuels. 2. To give some example for practical combustion systems.
Course Description		Review of Stoichiometric Relations, generalized reaction equations; Basic Definitions; mixture fraction, heat value, heat of reaction, adiabatic flame temperature; Chemical Reactions with Finite Reaction Rate and Thermo Chemical Equilibrium; reaction rate, rate coefficients, Arrhenius model, complex chemical equilibrium and dissociation, calculation of equilibrium constant and composition, models for combustion of hydrocarbon fuels, flame temperature calculation, Non-Equilibrium Processes; partially equilibrium assumption, Combustion Kinetics and Sensitivity Analyses; kinetics equations, solution methods for stiff ODE’s ; Reduction of Chemical Reactions; justification of steady state assumption, reduced mechanisms for hydrogen-oxygen, hydrogen-air, methane-air and higher molecule hydrocarbons-air mixtures, Ignition and Explosion theories; Auto-ignition temperatures and ignition delay, thermal explosion theory, explosion limits for fuel-air mixtures; Conservation equations for multi component reacting systems; Flame phenomena; Flames in premixed combustible gases, Laminar flames, Turbulent flames. Vaporization and burning of a fuel droplet; Diffusion flames, soot formation and air pollution.
Course Outcomes		1. Understand the thermodynamic system and stability of chemical and thermodynamic systems. 2. Learn about the engineering applications of combustion systems. 3. Learn the optimization of system parameters to obtain some preferred results. 4. Learn how to build and use mathematical models for multi parameters complex systems.
Pre-requisite(s)		-
Required Facilities		Computer use is necessary for the homework assignments.
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Textbook		1. Turns, S.R. (2011). An Introduction to Combustion. McGraw Hill, 3. Ed.
Other References		2. Gulder, O. L. (2013). Fundamentals of Combustion UTIAS University of Toronto (Lecture Notes). 3. Ergeneman, M. (2005). Combustion Fundamentals (Lecture Notes). 4. Kuo, K.K. (2005). Principles of Combustion. Wiley-Interscience, 2. Ed. 5. Warnatz, J., Mass, U. ve Dibble, R.W. (2010). Combustion. Springer Verlag, 4. Ed. Berlin. 6. Glassman, I. ve Yetter, R. (2008). Combustion. Academic Press, 4. Ed. New York. 7. Kanury, A.M. (1994). Introduction to Combustion Phenomena. Gordon and Breach Science Publ.

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