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Complete combustion (given sufficient oxygen) of any hydrocarbon produces carbon dioxide and water. Equations. It is quite important that you can write properly balanced equations for these reactions, because they often come up as a part of thermochemistry calculations.
The heat of combustion is the energy released as heat when a compound undergoes complete combustion with oxygen under standard conditions. The chemical reaction is typically a hydrocarbon reacting with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, water and heat. It may be expressed with the quantities: 1  energy/ mole of fuel (kJ/mol).