Experimental determination of the flame temperatures of complex mixtures of combustible gases and a method for calculating them

✍ Scribed by Bernard Lewis; Henry Seaman; G.W. Jones

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1933
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 772 KB
• Volume: 215
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(33)91232-6

✦ Synopsis

In previous reports i, 3, 3, 4 results were published giving the flame temperatures of many hydrocarbon-air mixtures, of mixtures of methane and oxygen, methane-hydrogen and methane-acetylene with air and of ammonia and its products of dissociation with air. The above reports should be consulted for details regarding the method of making flametemperature determinations.

In the present report data are given showing how the flame temperatures of hydrogen, methane and carbon monoxide are affected by the addition of various amounts of nitrogen and carbon dioxide. The results have industrial importance, because they show to what extent the addition of these inert gases depresses the available maximum flame temperatures of such mixtures when they are burned with air.

Practically all the mixed gases used industrially contain one or more of the following constituents: carbon dioxide,