Bio-fuel oil combustion in a 0.5 MW furnace

Conference · Wed Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:115333

Barbucci, P; Costanzi, F; Ligasacchi, S ^[1]

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1. ENEL, Pisa (Italy); and others

Within the framework of a research partially financed by EU, ENEL-CRT has carried out combustion tests on two different kinds of bio-fuel oil derived from the fast pyrolysis of vegetable biomass. The tests have been performed utilizing a multi-purpose test rig, that includes a vertical 0.5 MWt furnace equipped with an industrial swirl-type design burner installed at the top of the combustion chamber. The scope was to compare the behavior of bio-fuel oil with a No.6 fuel oil, in view of investigating on the possible utilization in power systems of this new fuel, in replacement of conventional mineral fuel oils. To that purpose some minor modifications of the existing experimental facility were necessary, in order to adapt the rig to the specific research. The paper presents the encouraging results of the experiments, during which the stable combustion that it was possible to achieve, allowed the monitoring of operating conditions and of flame quality, with particular attention to the thermal furnace load, final O{sub 2}, flow rates, pressures and temperatures. Flue gas sampling and analysis of NO{sub x}, CO, SO{sub 2} and CO{sub 2} were also performed, together with solid particulate sampling.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States)
• OSTI ID: 115333
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP--200-8098; CONF-9508104--; ON: DE95009230
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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