Performance Characterization Of Micro Porous Media Burner For Heat Or Power Generation

The threat of fossil fuel depletion affects the nation’s economy. Consequently, attempts are made to improve the use of fuels by developing highly efficient burners. With this intention, present work was focused to develop premixed butane based micro porous media burner. The burner was designed to u...

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Main Author:	Janvekar, Ayub Ahmed
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	T Technology TJ1-1570 Mechanical engineering and machinery
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spelling	my-usm-ep.467002021-11-17T03:42:12Z Performance Characterization Of Micro Porous Media Burner For Heat Or Power Generation 2019-02-01 Janvekar, Ayub Ahmed T Technology TJ1-1570 Mechanical engineering and machinery The threat of fossil fuel depletion affects the nation’s economy. Consequently, attempts are made to improve the use of fuels by developing highly efficient burners. With this intention, present work was focused to develop premixed butane based micro porous media burner. The burner was designed to undergo surface and submerged flames by varying equivalence ratio. Two types of reaction layer were tested; foam and ball type porous media (PM), while porcelain foam in preheat zone. Thickness of reaction and preheat layer was varied suitably to get optimum burner performance. Thus 90% thermal efficiency was noted by using 15 mm alumina foam along with 10 mm porcelain foam. Values of NOx and CO at optimum equivalence ratio was less than 15 and 60 ppm respectively. Further, 4% improvement in the thermal efficiency was achieved by adding 80 μL of vegetable oil droplets over reaction layer. In addition, electric power of 2.018 W was generated from the surface flame using TE cells. These TE cells are integrated to a hybrid configuration, it includes circuit fan powered from solar panels. Moreover, height between reaction layer and TE cells was optimized (69 mm) using design of experiments to further increase electric power by 8%. Finally, three dimensional numerical study was performed to compare experimental data for both temperature and emissions (NOx and CO) at a critical equivalence ratio (ER=0.7) 2019-02 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/46700/ http://eprints.usm.my/46700/1/Performance%20Characterization%20Of%20Micro%20Porous%20Media%20Burner%20For%20Heat%20Or%20Power%20Generation.pdf application/pdf en public phd doctoral Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekanik
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description	The threat of fossil fuel depletion affects the nation’s economy. Consequently, attempts are made to improve the use of fuels by developing highly efficient burners. With this intention, present work was focused to develop premixed butane based micro porous media burner. The burner was designed to undergo surface and submerged flames by varying equivalence ratio. Two types of reaction layer were tested; foam and ball type porous media (PM), while porcelain foam in preheat zone. Thickness of reaction and preheat layer was varied suitably to get optimum burner performance. Thus 90% thermal efficiency was noted by using 15 mm alumina foam along with 10 mm porcelain foam. Values of NOx and CO at optimum equivalence ratio was less than 15 and 60 ppm respectively. Further, 4% improvement in the thermal efficiency was achieved by adding 80 μL of vegetable oil droplets over reaction layer. In addition, electric power of 2.018 W was generated from the surface flame using TE cells. These TE cells are integrated to a hybrid configuration, it includes circuit fan powered from solar panels. Moreover, height between reaction layer and TE cells was optimized (69 mm) using design of experiments to further increase electric power by 8%. Finally, three dimensional numerical study was performed to compare experimental data for both temperature and emissions (NOx and CO) at a critical equivalence ratio (ER=0.7)
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level	Doctorate
author	Janvekar, Ayub Ahmed
author_facet	Janvekar, Ayub Ahmed
author_sort	Janvekar, Ayub Ahmed
title	Performance Characterization Of Micro Porous Media Burner For Heat Or Power Generation
title_short	Performance Characterization Of Micro Porous Media Burner For Heat Or Power Generation
title_full	Performance Characterization Of Micro Porous Media Burner For Heat Or Power Generation
title_fullStr	Performance Characterization Of Micro Porous Media Burner For Heat Or Power Generation
title_full_unstemmed	Performance Characterization Of Micro Porous Media Burner For Heat Or Power Generation
title_sort	performance characterization of micro porous media burner for heat or power generation
granting_institution	Universiti Sains Malaysia
granting_department	Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekanik
publishDate	2019
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