Utilization of Waste Vegetable Oil as a Fuel for Agricultural Warm Air Furnaces

Autor:	Yukitada Takasaki, Kazunori Hamasaki, Satoshi Shimonokado, Eiji Kinoshita
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Smoke Warm front Thermal efficiency Vegetable oil Waste management Mechanical Engineering Combustor Environmental science Condensed Matter Physics Combustion NOx
Zdroj:	TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Series B. 73:1578-1582
ISSN:	1884-8346 0387-5016
DOI:	10.1299/kikaib.73.1578
Popis:	In order to use waste vegetable oil as an alternative burner fuel, the fuel properties, combustion characteristics and exhaust emissions of waste vegetable oil methyl ester (WME) are investigated using an agricultural warm air furnace. The rapeseed oil methyl ester (RME) and the bunker A are also used for the comparison. From the experimental results, the fuel properties of WME are almost the same as that of RME expect for diglyceride content. Although the heating output of WME is lower than that of bunker A, the thermal efficiency of WME is almost the same as the bunker A with the same excess air ratio. WME has lower Smoke, NOx and SO2 emissions compared with the bunker A. WME has almost the same heating output, thermal efficiency and exhaust emissions as RME expect for CO emission. It is concluded that WME can be used as a burner fuel.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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