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Fuels and Combustion, Third Edition is a systematic and comprehensive work on a subject that forms an integral part of the undergraduate degree courses in Chemical, Mechanical, Metallurgical and Aeronautical Engineering. While emphasising the fundamental principles, the book provides a balanced treatment of energy resources, processing of fuels, fundamentals of combustion and combustion appliances. A special feature of the book is that the topics have been dealt with in the Indian context.

The third edition of the book has a completely new introduction, layout and design; new statistics have been added to provide up-to-date information.

Samir Sarkar is Retired Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. He received his doctorate from Kharkov Institute of Technology, USSR, where he was a UNESCO fellow. Professor Sarkar has also worked as a scientist at Bose Institute, Kolkata, and the Central Fuel Research Institute, Dhanbad, Bihar. He has published several technical papers in the areas of coal and petroleum with emphasis on carbonisation, hydrogenation and gasification. He has translated a Russian book, Design of By-product Recovery Units of Coke Plant, into English.

Introduction
Definitions, Units and Measures
Solid Fuels
Processing of Solid Fuels
Liquid Fuels
Gaseous Fuels
Combustion Process (Stoichiometry and Thermodynamics)
Combustion Process (Kinetics)
Combustion Appliances

Appendices
Index