Table 1.

Composition and property of the fuel.

$$n_f=\frac{{\dot{m}}_f}{M_f}$$ (1)

S/N	Name of Constituent	Formula of Constituent	Molar fraction (Volumetric) (xf)	Molar mass of Constituent (Mi) (kg/kmol)
1	Methane	CH4	0.87721	16
2	Ethane	C2H4	0.03658	30
3	Propane	C3H8	0.03031	44
4	Normal –Butane	C4H10–N	0.003325	58
5	Iso – Butane	C4H10–I	0.003318	58
6	Normal – Pentane	C5H12–N	0.002157	72
7	Normal – Hexane	C6H14–N	0.000448	86
8	Iso – Pentane	C5H12–I	0.002352	72
9	Carbon (IV) Oxide	CO2	0.02722	44
10	Nitrogen	N2	0.01708	28

*Source [50].

Equations (1), (2), (3) were used to determine the molar flow rates of fuel and air, and fuel air ratio respectively as expressed by Egware et al. [45].

The fuel molar flow rate, n_f in kmol/s was computed using Equation (1).