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Lesson 1 - Introduction/Fuels and Combustion Flashcards

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Assembly of Systems or Subsystems to generate electricity

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Power Plant

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is one of the techniques of art that we can study, use, repair, preserve, operate and place in the machines and equipment of the power plant. Power Plant Engineering also discusses power generation, transmission, distribution, and its use. In addition to protecting the balance of the environment and making more profit at a lower cost is also a matter of power plant engineering.

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Power Plant Engineering

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Components of Power Plant Buildings

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  1. General Design
  2. Materials
  3. Reference Lines
  4. Architectural Features
  5. Chimney
  6. Chimney Stability
  7. Foundations
  8. Miscellaneous Equipment
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is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as thermal energy or to be used for work.

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Fuel

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a chemical process in which a substance reacts rapidly with oxygen and gives off heat.

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Combustion

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Classifications of Fuels

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  1. Solid Fuels
  2. Liquid Fuels
  3. Gaseous Fuels
  4. Atomic Fuels
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7
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various types of solid material that are used to produce energy and provide heating, released through combustion.

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Solid Fuels

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are combustible or energy-generating molecules that can be harnessed to create mechanical energy, usually producing kinetic energy.

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Liquid Fuels

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is any one of a number of fuels that under ordinary conditions are gaseous.

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Gaseous Fuels

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Is the fuel that is used in a nuclear reactor to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.

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Atomic Fuel

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Properties of Fuels

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  1. Density
  2. Viscosity
  3. Volatility and Residue
  4. Ignition Quality
  5. Calorific Value
  6. Pour, Flash, and Color
  7. Purity
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Mass per unit volume

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Density

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A tool used to determine specific gravity

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Hydrometer

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Resistance to flow and it is an important quality of fuel oil

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Viscosity

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15
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Laboratory measurement of viscosity

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Saybolt Viscosimeter

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16
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Test to measure the volatility through a sample of oil to be heated slowly.

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ASTM Distillation Test

17
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Employed in measuring and controlling the ignition quality

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Cetane Number and Diesel Index

18
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Determination of the heats of combustion of petroleum oils

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Calorific Value

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A device used to measure the amount of heat involved in a chemical or physical process.

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Calorimeter

20
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Is the temperature at which ignition of the fuel vapors rising above the heated oil will occur when exposed to an open flame.

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Flash point

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Is the minimum temperature at which the fuel will no longer pour freely.

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Pour Point

22
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Sometimes specified on the basis that indicated clean fresh stock of satisfactory volatility.

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Color

23
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Sediment and water, ash or sulfur, all of which are indesirable

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Impurities

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Is an analysis of the composition of fuel which gives on mass basis, moisture content, volatile matter, fixed carbon and ash.

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Proximate Analysis

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Is an analysis of the composition of fuel which gives on mass basis, the relative amounts of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, ash, and moisture.

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Ultimate Analysis

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Is the heating value obtained when the water in the profucts of combustion is in the liquid state.

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Higher Heating Value or Gross Calorific Value

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Is the heating value obtained when the water in the products of combustion is in the vapor state

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Lower Heating Value or Net Calorific Value

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Is the exact theoretical amount of air needed to burn a unit amount of fuel

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Theoretical Weight of Air

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Measurement of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide in a mixture of gases, usually from the exhaust of combustion processes such as boilers, furnaces, fired heaters, and combustion engines.

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Orsat Analysis

30
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Gaseous products of combustion are analyzed using gas analyzer known as the

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Orsatapparatus

31
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Combustion products contain:

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CO2, SO2, N2, O2, CO, and water vapor

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Consists of mainly of combustible elements of Carbon and Hydrogen.

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Hydrocarbon fuels

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