In this HVAC School short, Tony Gonzalez with Fieldpiece explains the difference between perfect theoretical combustion and real-world combustion. He describes how, in a perfect system, fuel and pure oxygen ignite to create harmless byproducts like CO2 and water vapor. But in real HVAC systems, the oxygen comes from ambient air, which changes the reaction.
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When You have the perfect amount of fuel and just pure oxygen,. Put those together with the heat source, you are going to get what's called a perfect combustion, where you're going to have those molecules just combine into carbon dioxide and to water vapor. All You get are byproducts that are not harmful to us. In The real World, we don't feed these furnaces pure oxygen.
They Get the oxygen from the air. Air is only about 21% oxygen. The Grand majority of that is nitrogen and a couple of small little things. Now You throw off that perfect ratio and when you put in the fuel, the heat mix with the nitrogen,.
you don't only get water vapor, H2O and Carbon Dioxide, but you could also get the presence of CO. When You don't have that right mixture of fuel and air, you get some byproducts that you don't want. And What combustion analysis will allow us to do is to actually understand how well that combustion is happening.
Good analysis. Id be curious to see what else is created from the other gases, contaminants, and biological matter combusting as well.