Don’t just review the notes to answer these questions, literally write the answers down on paper, as if you were taking a quiz.
- Write down a list of identifiers associated with combustion and flames.
- Write down a definition of combustion.
- What makes a flame a flame?
- Is all combustion a flame? What is an example of “flameless” combustion?
- Sketch the temperature and major species profiles for a premixed flame.
- Sketch the temperature and major species profiles for a nonpremixed flame.
- List four characteristics that distinguish premixed and nonpremixed flames.
- Identify the sources premixed and nonpremixed flames in a typical home.
- What causes the blue color in a flame? What about the yellow?
- List five applications of combustion.