Combustion Technology : Essentials of Flames and Burners

This book is intended for post-graduate students in Mechanical and allied engineering disciplines. It will also be helpful to scientists and engineers working in the areas of combustion to recapitulate the fundamental and generally applied aspects of combustion. Some of the salient features of the book are: . Comprehensively covers the fundamental aspects of combustion. . Includes physical descriptions of premixed and non-premixed flames. . Provides a detailed analysis of the basic ideas and design characteristics of burners for gaseous liquid and solid fuels. . A chapter on alternative renewable fuels has also been included to bring out the need characteristics and usage of alternative fuels. . Review questions have been provided at the end of each chapter which will help the students to evaluate their understanding of the important concepts covered in that chapter. . Several standard text books have been cited in the chapters and are listed towards the end as suggested reading to enable the readers to refer them when required. <b>Contents :-</b>1. Introduction 2. Review of Combustion Thermodynamics and Kinetics 3. Review of Combustion Phenomena 4. Burners for Gaseous Fuels 5. Burners for Liquid Fuels 6. Solid Fuel Systems 7. Alternative Fuels Suggested Reading Index <b>About the Authors :-</b>Vasudevan Raghavan is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Madras India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same institute in 2004 after completing his M.E. in Aeronautical Engineering. He also worked as a CFD analyst with TCS Bengaluru before he did his post doctoral research from University of Nebraska-Lincoln USA where he worked on the transient simulation of methanol droplet combustion under microgravity environment. He has graduated 3 PhD scholars 12 MS scholars and 20 M. Tech. students so far. He has authored about 80 international peer reviewed journal articles and around 40 international conference articles. His areas of research include evaporation and combustion of liquid fuel droplets laminar flames flame spread fire dynamics and coal gasification.