Combustion of alternate liquid fuels in high efficiency boilers

Conference · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983 · Proc., Annu. Meet., Air Pollut. Control Assoc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6810021

Murphy, E T

Alternate Liquid Fuel (ALF) is a ''non-critical'' fuel oil substitute formulated by selectively blending feedstocks of recycled solvents, alcohols, mineral spirits and other combustible liquids with substandard conventional fuel oils obtained from government surplus or purchased on the spot market. Typical feedstocks are listed on Table I. These combustible liquids, reclaimed from waste streams, are generated by petro-chemical, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, electronic, environmental recovery and other industries and government (mostly military) sources. The raw waste feedstocks collected from these sources are carefully segregated, cleaned up (of suspended solids and non-combustibles) and monitored by BNL and vendors to preclude feedstocks containing halogenated hydrocarbons, PCB's, heavy metals and other toxics in excess of prescribed levels. The resulting combustible feedstocks are purchased by BNL as a boiler fuel at prices 25 to 50 percent or more below conventional fuel oil market prices. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) began testing ALF on an experimental basis in 1973, in an effort to reduce the Laboratory's rapidly escalating fuel oil bills. Based on accrued experience from the tests, a 40,000 gallon per day pilot processing system was constructed in 1976. Successful operation and full scale firing of ALF prompted to BNL to build a 700,000 gallon per day processing system in 1978, and to modify the existing Central Steam Facility fuel train to accommodate a wider range of liquid fuels in 1982.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, New York
• OSTI ID: 6810021
• Report Number(s): CONF-830617-
• Journal Information: Proc., Annu. Meet., Air Pollut. Control Assoc.; (United States), Vol. 83-50.1; Conference: 76. annual meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association, Atlanta, GA, USA, 19 Jun 1983
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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