Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 1265–1295
Nurul Huda1, M. Rashid2, and C.M Hasfalina3
1 Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, 54100 UTM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2 Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, 54100 UTM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43650 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In the current overview paper, particulate emissions from the combustion of agricultural residues are discussed. The influence of operating parameters and fuel quality was investigated. Studies on the mass concentration, number concentration and size distribution of particles emitted from agricultural waste fired boiler are presented. Mass concentrations of particles in the flue gas from small scale combustion appliances reported in the literature to be in the range of 8 - 2095 mg/Nm3, while particle number concentrations in the range of 7.0 x 10-2 to 1.8 x 108 particles/cm3. The dominating chemical compositions of the particle emissions were Ca followed by K, Mn and Mg. Organic Carbon (OC), Elemental carbon (EC), Elemental emission, Poly-cyclic Aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and emission of different size particles (PM?0.1 to PM10) were also reported. Combustion temperature is the most important factor in determining PAH composition.
Author Keywords: Particulate Matter, Combustion technologies, Fly-ash, Agricultural wastes.
Nurul Huda1, M. Rashid2, and C.M Hasfalina3
1 Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, 54100 UTM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2 Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, 54100 UTM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43650 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
In the current overview paper, particulate emissions from the combustion of agricultural residues are discussed. The influence of operating parameters and fuel quality was investigated. Studies on the mass concentration, number concentration and size distribution of particles emitted from agricultural waste fired boiler are presented. Mass concentrations of particles in the flue gas from small scale combustion appliances reported in the literature to be in the range of 8 - 2095 mg/Nm3, while particle number concentrations in the range of 7.0 x 10-2 to 1.8 x 108 particles/cm3. The dominating chemical compositions of the particle emissions were Ca followed by K, Mn and Mg. Organic Carbon (OC), Elemental carbon (EC), Elemental emission, Poly-cyclic Aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) and emission of different size particles (PM?0.1 to PM10) were also reported. Combustion temperature is the most important factor in determining PAH composition.
Author Keywords: Particulate Matter, Combustion technologies, Fly-ash, Agricultural wastes.
How to Cite this Article
Nurul Huda, M. Rashid, and C.M Hasfalina, “Particulate Emission from Agricultural Waste Fired Boiler,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1265–1295, September 2014.
