This weekend I spent on Combustion (which I do not think I ever saw in school). I must say that I am not impressed with how MERMs deals with this subject. It seems like much of the first half of the chapter deals with subject matter than is not that pertinent or helpful. I can see a concept question coming out of these areas though.
Anyway it seems the meat of the chapter is combustion reactions, stoichiometric air, flue gas analysis and heat of combustion. So after reading the chapter (quite thoroughly) I start in on the separate book of practice problems. Unfortunately I was not able to do many of them. The chapter does (in my opinion) a poor job of preparing for the practice problems. And for some reason there are a ton of practice problems on this chapter (19 of them).
I could really dig into all of the practice problems (which could take some time) but it would seem the wise decision would be to move on to subjects that are probably more pertinent (the rest of the thermo chapters and power cycles).
In all likelihood there might be 1 or 2 combustion questions or none right? So combustion is probably not time well spent right?
Any advice?
Anyway it seems the meat of the chapter is combustion reactions, stoichiometric air, flue gas analysis and heat of combustion. So after reading the chapter (quite thoroughly) I start in on the separate book of practice problems. Unfortunately I was not able to do many of them. The chapter does (in my opinion) a poor job of preparing for the practice problems. And for some reason there are a ton of practice problems on this chapter (19 of them).
I could really dig into all of the practice problems (which could take some time) but it would seem the wise decision would be to move on to subjects that are probably more pertinent (the rest of the thermo chapters and power cycles).
In all likelihood there might be 1 or 2 combustion questions or none right? So combustion is probably not time well spent right?
Any advice?