complete combustion

complete combustion

[kəm′plēt kəm′bəs·chən]
(chemistry)
Combustion in which the entire quantity of oxidizable constituents of a fuel is reacted.
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The thermal efficiency is increasing with increase in blend ratio and it is increasing more for late injection due to the reason of attaining heat release after top dead centre and it is leaded to complete combustion.
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The increased BTE with the WCO emulsion is due the presence of water in the emulsion which resulted in secondary atomization of the fuel (called as micro explosion) and resulted in complete combustion and rapid energy release.
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Nagkaroon ng (There was a) complete combustion due to presence of fuel, heat and oxygen, he said.
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It can be observed why it is necessary to introduce more air than that which is required for complete combustion but this inevitably incurs a detrimental effect on combustion efficiency.
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Practically, more air than theoretically required must be supplied for the purpose of complete combustion [Farthing 2002].
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