Help with finding relatable theory for calorimetry??

[nictolshy]

Hey everyone.

I'm doing a high school lab report/ extended experimental investigation (whatever u like to call it) and it's all about the calorimetry of fuels. Though this isnt really important, the fuels i'm doing are straight petrol, E25, E50, E75 and straight ethanol. But I'm really struggling to find any theory i could link to other than bond energies (for theoretical enthalpy). Could anyone direct me to any theoretical topics i could possibly look at? Or some chemical thermodynamics laws or laws or chemists?? Anything would be better than nothing. Just names of things would be great, i have enough time to look over it all.

THANKS GUYS!

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[studiot]

21 minutes ago, nictolshy said:

Anything would be better than nothing. Just names of things would be great, i have enough time to look over it

Relatable to what?

The calorimeter is designed to measure the heat of combustion.

However you can use the results to test a fuel for contamination as here.

https://www.ddscalorimeters.com/fuel-analysis-applications/

Edited March 24, 2019 by studiot