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SECTION 1

ENERGY CONVERSION ENGINEERING

Combustion Calculation Parameters

Coal Fuel Combustion in a Furnace

Percent Excess Air while Burning Coal

Fuel Oil Combustion in a Furnace

Natural Gas Fuel Combustion in a Furnace

Wood Fuel Combustion in a Furnace

Combustion Analysis by the Molal Method

Estimating the Temperature of the Final Products of Combustion

Determination of the Savings Produced by Preheating Combustion
Air

Combustion Calculations Using the Million Btu (1.055 MJ) Method

COMBUSTION CALCULATION PARAMETERS

The focus in this section of the handbook is on external combustion of fossil

fuels—such as in a boiler furnace. A large portion of fossil-fuel energy use
takes place in the form of external combustion to generate steam for power
generation and space heating. Internal combustion of fossil fuels—such as in
gas turbines, and diesel and gas engines—is discussed within sections 3 and 4

of this handbook.
In today’s world the greatest emphasis is on complete combustion to