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Clean Air: International Journal on Energy for a Clean Environment

ISSN for PRINT: 1561-4417

Institutional price:	$451.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2004, Volume5

165 pages

DOI: 10.1615/InterJEnerCleanEnv.v5.i3

Issue price - $108.00

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE WASTE OIL COMBUSTION BURNER FOR ENERGY SAVING AND LOW-POLLUTION

Y. Kawaguchi
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kinki University Takaya, Umenobe, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-2116, Japan

N. Tamaki
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kinki University Takaya, Umenobe, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-2116, Japan

M. Shimizu
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kinki University Takaya, Umenobe, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-2116, Japan

Hiroyuki Hiroyasu
Institute of Industrial Technology, Kinki University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to develop a waste oil combustion burner that is able to atomize high viscous waste oil using little energy and reducing air pollutants. The burner developed in this study consists of an internal mixing twin-fluid atomizer in which waste oil and atomizing air are mixed in the mixing chamber and the flame holder using the optimum structure. The results of this study indicated that high combustion efficiencies of waste oil are possible with little expenditure of energy (i.e., atomizing air consumption is relatively small) and secondary air, e.g., provided by a blower, is not needed. The flame is mainly luminous, but there is no black exhaust smoke and the NO_x and CO exhaust emissions are low.