The Use of an Emission Analyzer to Demonstrate Basic Principles

Authors

  • Keith B. Lodge University of Minnesota

Abstract

Laboratory experiments using a burner fed with known flows of natural gas, a makeshift flue, and an emission analyzer that measures the volume fractions of oxygen and nitric oxide in the exiting flue gases are described. The results are used to demonstrate basic stoichiometry and kinetics; the levels of carbon dioxide and excess air in the flue gas are calculated, and the temperatures that must exist for the formation of nitric oxide are estimated.

Author Biography

Keith B. Lodge, University of Minnesota

Keith Lodge is Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in Duluth. He was educated in the United Kingdom, obtaining his BSc from the University of Warwick and his PhD from the University of Sheffield. He teaches laboratory courses, thermodynamics, heat transfer, computational methods, reactor design, and process control. Properties of hydrophobic organic compounds are his principal research interest.

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Published

2000-04-01

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 2 (2000): Spring 2000

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