ABSTRACT
Combustion engineering requires an ability to analyze energetics of chemically reactive mixtures. Most thermodynamics texts address the general subject of energy conversion and conservation as well as cover principles of mass conservation, property relationships, equations of state, and process relationships. Classical thermodynamics provides a useful overall energy balance bookkeeping technique for describing components and processes. The particular discipline termed thermochemistry deals with global energy analysis associated with combustion processes. In this chapter, a basic comprehension of thermodynamics will be assumed, and a general energy balance for a chemically reactive medium will be developed.
