5. Glossary – Definitions

Stoichiometric combustion; stoichiometric combustion

Combustion without excess or deficiency of air, where all available oxygen is completely consumed.

Combustion non stoichiométrique; non-stoichiometric combustion

Combustion with too much or too little air.

Biard chart; Biard chart

Thermodynamic diagram showing, for a given freezing temperature, the oxygen concentration [O ₂ ] on the abscissa and the carbon dioxide concentration [CO ₂ ] on the ordinate, for different values of the air factor λ and the ratio [CO]/[CO ₂ ].

Bunte chart; Bunte chart

A variant of the Ostwald diagram in...