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Lecture 5 - Mechanical Engineering

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Particle conversion: what happens<br />

• Heating up and drying by convection/radiation<br />

• Evaporation and pyrolysis<br />

• Volatile products: water vapour, hydrocarbons,<br />

carbon oxides, H, S and N compounds, residual<br />

char<br />

• Mixing/diffusion of ambient oxidizer with<br />

combustibles<br />

• Ignition, needs high temperature<br />

• Combustion of volatiles (homogeneous reaction)<br />

• Combustion of residual char (heterogeneous<br />

reaction)<br />

/ <strong>Mechanical</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> 29-11-2012 PAGE 4

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