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Book/Book Chapter 
Combustion of hydrocarbons 
Speight, JG 
2020 
Gulf Professional Publishing 
Cambridge, Untied Kingdom 
Handbook of industrial hydrocarbon processes 
421-463 
English 
Combustion (burning) is the sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a hydrocarbon and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat and conversion of chemical species. The release of heat can result in the production of light, usually in the form of a flame. Hydrocarbon derivatives of interest often include organic compounds (especially hydrocarbon derivatives) in the gas, liquid, or solid phase. For the most part, combustion involves a mixture of hot gases and is the result of a chemical reaction, primarily between oxygen in air and a hydrocarbon (or a hydrocarbon fuel). In addition to other products, the combustion reaction produces carbon dioxide (CO2), steam (H2O), light, and heat. This chapter describes how the physical processes involved in combustion are primarily transport processes: transport of mass and energy and, in systems with flow of the reactants, transport of momentum. The reactants in the chemical reaction are normally a hydrocarbon and an oxidant. In practical combustion systems the chemical reactions of the major chemical species, carbon and hydrogen in the hydrocarbon and oxygen in the air, are fast at the prevailing high temperatures (greater than 930°C 1,700°F) because the reaction rates increase exponentially with temperature. 
Char; Combustion chemistry; Combustion of hydrocarbons; Complete and incomplete combustion; Formation of particulate matter; Process parameters; Rapid combustion; Slow combustion; Spontaneous combustion 
2nd 
Speight, JG 
9780128099230