Title:
Firing of Sunflower Oil Production Industrial Wastes in a CFB Combustor
Author(s):
Topal, H., Amirabedin, E.
Document(s):
Paper
Abstract:
Alternative energies, particularly energy from biomass represents an important role among the energy sources of the countries whose energy depends on import. The utilization of the biomass provides sustainable and environmentally¬ friendly benefits as well as the possibility of dispose of the industrial wastes safely and effectively, without harming the environment. Compared to the solid fossil fuels, biomass contains much more moisture and volatile which can affect profoundly the fuel handling and feeding systems; therefore, the conventional combustion technologies are inconvenient for the biomass fuels combustion. For solving these problems, technologies based on fluidized bed (e.g. circulating fluidized bed) can be considered as the most proper remedy for industrial combustion of solid biomass fuels. In this regard, firing of vegetable oil production industrial wastes (e.g. sunflower meal and hull) in a Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) can be an appropriate possibility for thermal energy generation. By applying this technology, removal of process waste can be achieved with minimum environmental effects, on the other hand, energy supply at an oil production facility can be based mostly on waste biomass, and therefore, there will be no need to fossil fuels. In this study, combustion of the waste of a typical sunflower oil production facility in a 0.1 MWth CFB combustor under 850¬880ºC of bed temperature is investigated. Combustor efficiency and concentration of O2, CO2, CO, NOx and CmHn in flue gas are recorded based on continuous measurement principle. Moreover, a non¬isothermal thermogravimetry analysis, in which the biomass sample is burned with O2 and is applied, in order to obtain the combustion characteristic of the sunflower meal. Performance results of the sunflower meal combustion in the Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor (CFBC) are presented. These results suggest that combustion of sunflower meal in a CFB combustor can be utilized for clean and effective energy generation in sunflower oil production facilities.
Keywords:
biomass, combustion, sunflower oil, waste, circulating fluidised bed combustor, thermogravimetric
Topic:
R&D on Biomass Conversion Technologies for Heating, Electricity and Chemicals
Subtopic:
Solid biofuel combustion for large utility
Event:
20th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
2CV.4.48
Pages:
1379 - 1384
ISBN:
978-88-89407-54-7
Paper DOI:
10.5071/20thEUBCE2012-2CV.4.48
Price:
FREE
