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This document is an exam for a course on Fuels and Combustion. It contains 5 questions testing knowledge of various fuels like coal, crude oil, and biofuels. It asks students to calculate properties like calorific value, explain production processes, and compare different fuel production techniques. For example, question 3 asks students to define calorific values, describe how coal devolatilizes at different temperatures, and explain the atmospheric distillation process. The document provides instructions for the exam and lists the questions along with the number of marks allocated to each question.

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Be Winter 2021

This document is an exam for a course on Fuels and Combustion. It contains 5 questions testing knowledge of various fuels like coal, crude oil, and biofuels. It asks students to calculate properties like calorific value, explain production processes, and compare different fuel production techniques. For example, question 3 asks students to define calorific values, describe how coal devolatilizes at different temperatures, and explain the atmospheric distillation process. The document provides instructions for the exam and lists the questions along with the number of marks allocated to each question.

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Seat No.: ________ Enrolment No.

___________

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY


BE - SEMESTER–V (NEW) EXAMINATION – WINTER 2021
Subject Code:3150509 Date:15/12/2021
Subject Name:Fuels and Combustion
Time:02:30 PM TO 05:00 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
4. Simple and non-programmable scientific calculators are allowed.

MARKS
Q.1 (a) Briefly explain various important properties of coal. 03

(b) Discuss the history of all solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. 04
(c) Crude oil is analyzed to contain 87% carbon, 12.5% hydrogen and 0.5% 07
sulfur by weight. Calculate the net calorific value of crude oil at 298 K.
Data: Gross calorific value of Crude oil at 298 K is 45071kJ/kg oil and latent
heat of water vapor at same temperature is 2442.5 kJ/kg.

Q.2 (a) Describe the present status and consumption pattern of solid fuel. 03
(b) Enlist the different theories behind the coal forming process. 04
Describe anyone in detail.

(c) Describe briefly H-coal process. List out the advantages of 07


ebulated bed reactor over the fixed bed reactor.
OR
(c) Explain the coal gasification techniques in detail with neat sketch. 07
Q.3 (a) Define calorific value, gross calorific value and net 03
calorific value of a fuel
(b) Describe devolatilisation of coal at different temperature range. Also Discuss the04
composition of volatile matter.

(c) Describe the atmospheric distillation process with neat flow diagram. 07
OR
Q.3 (a) Enlist the difference between the hydrocarbon products obtained as liquid 03
fuel from Fischer Tropsch process and MTG process. Write the chemistry
involved in MTG process.
(b) Briefly explain the storage and handling of hydrogen gas. 04
(c) Differentiate between fluid coking and delayed coking. 07
Q.4 (a) Explain the applications, limitations and benefits of biogas. 03
(b) Discuss briefly about the direct and in-direct coal liquefaction processes. 04
(c) Define bio-fuel. Describe in detail about the production processes and 07
technologies available for bio-fuels production.
OR
Q.4 (a) Enlist the various steps involved in the biogas production. 03
(b) Explain the working principal of fluidized bed combustion process and also 04
discuss the selected industrial applications of fluidized bed combustion
process.
(c) Describe fluid catalytic cracking process in detail. Discuss the recent 07
development in the catalysts for this process.
Q.5 (a) Write the various reactions involved in the production of producer gas. 03
(b) Describe the mechanism and kinetics of combustion. 04
1
(c) A coal with a dry, ash free composition of 0.87 C, 0.09 H2, 0.02 S, and 0.02 07
O2 is burned with 25% excess air. The as fired ash and moisture contents
are 6% and 4% respectively. Calculate the actual air-fuel ratios.
OR
Q.5 (a) Define oxy-rich combustion. 03
(b) Explain turn down ratio of burner. State the various types of gas burner with 04
their applications.
(c) The Orsat analysis of the flue gases from a boiler house chimney by volume is 07
given below: CO2: 11.4%, O2: 4.2% and N2: 84.4%,
assuming that complete combustion takes place,
(a) Calculate the % excess air and
(b) Find the C:H ratio in the fuel

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