Question 6 Natural gas is burned in a boiler furnace. The combustion of natural gas produces...
A fuel gas containing 95 mole% methane and the balance ethane is burned completely with 25% excess air. The stack gas leaves the furnace at 900°C and is cooled to 450°C in a waste-heat boiler, a heat exchanger in which heat lost by cooling gases is used to produce steam from liquid water for heating, power generation, or process applications. (a) Taking as a basis of calculation 100 mol of the fuel gas fed to the furnace, calculate the amount...
A bituminous coal is burned with air in a boiler furnace. The coal is fed at a rate of 40000 kg/h and has an ultimate analysis of 76wt% C, 5wt% H, 8wt% O, negligible amounts of N and S, and 11wt% non-combustible ash. Air enters a preheater at 30 °C and 1 atm with a relative humidity of 30%, exchanges heat with the hot flue gas leaving the furnace and air enters the furnace at temperature Ta (°C). The flue...
Flue gas from a sugar mill furnace burning bagasse fibre in air contains 8.35% CO2, 15.5% H2O, 0.55% O2 and 75.6%N2. 130 kmol/min of the flue gas exits the furnace at 1300 C and 1atm and is used to generate steam in an adiabatic boiler (i.e. well-insulated heat exchanger). After exchanging heat with the steam, the flue gas leaves the boiler at 350 C and 1atm. Saturated liquid water at 75 C enters the adiabatic boiler tubes where it is...
A natural gas containing 82 mole% CH, and the balance C2H6 is used as a fuel to generate steam in an industrial plant (Figure 2). The natural gas is fed into a furnace at 25°C and burned at a rate of 10.000 mol/hr with 20% excess air. The heat transferred from the furnace is used to convert a liquid feed water at 25 °C into a saturated steam at 30 bar. During the combustion of natural gas, all the CH,...
Fuel is burned in a boiler to produce saturated steam at 10.0 bar absolute pressure from saturated liquid water at 10.0 bar absolute pressure. This H20 flows through tubes that run through the boiler, Energy released by combustion is transferred as heat through the walls of the tubes to convert the liquid water to steam at 10.0 bar. The fuel consists of 37 mol% ethane and 63 mol% acetylene, and is fed in the vapor phase at 50 °C and...
A fuel gas containing 85.0 mole% methane and the balance ethane is burned completely with 15.0 % excess air. The stack gas leaves the furnace at 900.0 °C and is cooled to 450.0 °C in a waste-heat boiler, a heat exchanger in which heat lost by cooling gases is used to produce steam from liquid water for heating, power generation, or process applications. Physical Property Tables Combustion Gases Correct. Take as a basis 100.0 mol of the fuel gas fed...
A combined cycle power plant consists of two gas turbines; cach produces a net power of 160 MW, and a 70 MW steam power cycle. The combustion of the fuel in the combustion chamber produces hot gases at 1400°C. The hot gases leaving the gas turbines are used to generate steam through the heat recovery steam generator (Boiler). The hot gases enter the heat recovery steam generator at 880°C and leaves at 660°C. Water enters the isentropic pump as saturated...
Thermodynamics 1. Saturated liquid H20 at 16 MPa is fed into the boiler of a variant of a Carnot cycle (but simplified Rankin cycle) where the working fluid is not an ideal gas. Saturated H20 vapor is fed into the turbine of the same turbine. The condenser of this turbine is operated at 8 kPa. The mass flowrate of the H20 in this cycle is 7.2x103 kg/min. Draw the path of this process on T-s diagram. Estimate the thermal efficiency...
unit operation, introduction to material balance 3) A fuel gas containing 60 mole% methane and the balance ethane is burned completely with 35% excess air. The stack gas leaves the furnace at 700°C and is cooled to 250°C in a heat exchanger in which heat lost by cooling gases is used to produce steam from liquid water for heating, power generation, or process applications. Taking as a basis of calculation 100 mol/s of the fuel gas fed to the furnace,...
A combined gas-steam power plant uses a simple gas turbine for the topping cycle and a simple Rankine cycle for the bottoming cycle. Atmospheric air enters the compressor at 101 kPa and 20 °C, and the maximum gas cycle temperature is 1100 °C. The compressor pressure ratio is 8. The gas stream leaves the heat exchanger at the saturation temperature of the steam flowing through the heat exchanger. Steam enters the heat exchanger at a pressure of 6 MPa and...