Development of a biofuel lamp and its comparison with a kerosene lamp
| Autor: | N. Chakraborty, S.C. Sarkar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, Vol 19, Iss 2, Pp 22-24 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1021-447X 2413-3051 |
| DOI: | 10.17159/2413-3051/2008/v19i2a3325 |
| Popis: | An attempt has been made to explore the suitability of crude Jatropha curcas seed oil (biofuel) as a fuel in substituting fully one of the important petroleum products like Kerosene. Expeller is used for the extraction of oil which is further filtered. This crude oil has a very high viscosity and, as result, cannot flow through capillary action in a standard lamp and, hence, requires viscosity reduction by a trans esterification process to convert it into biodiesel or by any other processes. But this is a complex chem-ical reaction and the cost of production becomes almost doubled unless glycerine is not recovered as a by-product. Hence, the paper describes the devel-opment of a unique lamp (lantern) fuelled by 100%biofuel (crude jatropha oil) for its illumination and its comparative performance with respect to a stan-dard kerosene lamp. |
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