Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Chemical thermodynamics and flame temperatures
1.2. Heats of Reaction and Formation
1.3. Free Energy and the Equilibrium Constants
1.4. Flame Temperature Calculations
1.5. Sub and Supersonic Combustion Thermodynamics
2.2. Rates of Reactions and Their Temperature Dependence
2.3. Simultaneous Interdependent Reactions
2.5. Pseudo-First-Order Reactions and the “Falloff” Range
2.6. The Partial Equilibrium Assumption
2.7. Pressure Effect in Fractional Conversion
2.8. Chemical Kinetics of Large Reaction Mechanisms
Chapter 3. Explosive and general oxidative characteristics of fuels
3.2. Chain Branching Reactions and Criteria for Explosion
3.3. Explosion Limits and Oxidation Characteristics of Hydrogen
3.4. Explosion Limits and Oxidation Characteristics of Carbon Monoxide
3.5. Explosion Limits and Oxidation Characteristics of Hydrocarbons
3.6. The Oxidation of Aldehydes
3.8. The Oxidation of Higher-Order Hydrocarbons
Chapter 4. Flame phenomena in premixed combustible gases
4.4. Stability Limits of Laminar Flames
4.5. Flame Progagation through Stratified Combustible Mixtures
4.6. Turbulent Reacting Flows and Turbulent Flames
4.8. Flame Stabilization in High-Velocity Streams
4.9. Combustion in Small Volumes
5.3. Hugoniot Relations and the Hydrodynamic Theory of Detonations
5.4. Comparison of Detonation Velocity Calculations with Experimental Results
5.5. The ZND Structure of Detonation Waves
5.6. The Structure of the Cellular Detonation Front and Other Detonation Phenomena Parameters
5.7. Detonations in Nongaseous Media
6.3. Burning of Condensed Phases
6.4. Burning of Droplet Clouds
6.5. Burning in Convective Atmospheres
7.2. Chain Spontaneous Ignition
7.3. Thermal Spontaneous Ignition
Chapter 8. Environmental combustion considerations
8.2. The Nature of Photochemical Smog
8.3. Formation and Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides
Chapter 9. Combustion of nonvolatile fuels
9.1. Carbon Char, Soot, and Metal Combustion
9.2. Metal Combustion Thermodynamics
9.4. Diffusion-Controlled Burning Rate
9.5. Practical Carbonaceous Fuels (C. R. Shaddix)
9.6. Soot Oxidation (C. R. Shaddix)
Appendix A: Thermochemical data and conversion factors
Appendix B: Adiabatic flame temperatures of hydrocarbons
Appendix C: Specific reaction rate constants
Appendix D: Bond dissociation energies of hydrocarbons
Appendix E: Flammability limits in air
Appendix F: Laminar flame speeds
Appendix G: Spontaneous ignition temperature data
Appendix H: Minimum spark ignition energies and quenching distances