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Combustion

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Explores carbon emission calculation, combustion mechanisms, fuel/air ratio, soot formation, and factors affecting combustion product composition.

Emission Factors and Combustion Mechanisms

Covers emission rate calculation, combustion mechanisms, and stoichiometric conditions for complete combustion.

Biomass Energy: Understanding and Transitioning

Explores biomass formation, energy conversion, potential in Switzerland, and the need for further research.

Combustion: Fundamentals and Applications

Explores combustion fundamentals, heat sources, fuel origins, environmental impact, fuel composition, boiler efficiency, and heat recovery.

Chemical Propulsion Systems: An Overview

Covers the principles and applications of chemical propulsion systems in space missions.

Wood Gasification: Concepts and Processes

Explores wood gasification principles, processes, and applications, emphasizing anaerobic digestion and biogas production as sustainable energy solutions.

Liquid Bi-propellant Propulsion Systems: Fundamentals and Architectures

Covers the fundamentals of liquid bi-propellant propulsion systems and their operational architectures.

Biomass Combustion: Energy Conversion Processes

Explores biomass thermochemical conversion, bioenergy potential, heating value, drying impact, and combustion emissions.

Energy Balances on Reactive Systems

Covers material and energy balances in chemical engineering, including Hess's Law application and heats of combustion.

Thermodynamics: Basics and Power Cycles

Explores thermodynamic basics, power cycles, and renewable energy applications.

Rankine Cycles: Introduction

Introduces the Rankine cycle, efficiency calculations, and improvements for designing state-of-the-art plants.

Combustion and Gas Turbines

Explores combustion, gas turbines, efficiency, environmental impact, and combined cycles in energy production.

Biomass - Impacts & Conclusion

Covers the impact of biomass on CO2 emissions neutrality, CO2 avoidance costs, life cycle performance, and controversial uses.

Landfill Fires: Characteristics and Mitigation

Discusses landfill fires, covering characteristics, mitigation, concentration during combustion, emergency responses, and acknowledgments.

Rocket Engine Injector Optimization

Discusses optimizing the injector of a hybrid rocket engine for improved combustion efficiency.

Catalytic Air Pollution Control

Explores catalysis for emission control, covering catalyst preparation, mobile and stationary sources, three-way catalytic converters, and the evolution of emission control technologies.

Energy Balances in Chemical Engineering

Discusses energy balances in Chemical Engineering through a problem sheet review on methane combustion in a boiler furnace.

Development of a small liquid-propellant rocket engine

Explores the development of a bi-liquid rocket engine for a hop and land vehicle.

Batteries, Fuel Cells and Electrolysis: Advantages

Explores fuel cell characteristics, efficiency, emissions, and performance compared to combustion, emphasizing advantages and challenges in the field.

Heterogeneous Catalysis: Basics and Kinetics

Covers the basics of heterogeneous catalysis and the importance of transition state theory in predicting reaction rates.