SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMBUSTION WITH APPLICATIONS IN MARINE ENGINES


General Info


  • Course Title: Special Topics In Combustion With Applications In Marine Engines
  • Course Code: NAOME1355
  • Semester: 9th
  • Course Type: S.1
  • Weekly Teaching Hours: 3 (Lectures)
  • Credits (ECTS): 4
  • Offered to ERASMUS+ students: Yes
  • Course Website: https://eclass.uniwa.gr/courses/NA240/
  • Professors: A. Hatziapostolou


Course Content / Syllabus


Definition of Combustion – Historical perspective. Complexity of Combustion phenomena – Elements of Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass transfer, Chemical Kinetics. Complete and Incomplete combustion, stoichiometry, Heat content of fuels. Laminar and Turbulent flames. Premixed and diffusion flames. Practical combustion systems for solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. Injection of liquid fuels – atomization – mixing with air - in-cylinder processes. Pollutant formation – Emission of Greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide and methane. Pollutant abatement methods. Pollutant and GHG measurement systems. Thermochemistry – Fuel cell systems.


Course Outline



  1. G.B. = General Background, S.B. = special background, S.: Specialised.↩︎