Boiler Combustion Optimization of Vegetal Crop Residues from Greenhouses
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/10489
ISSN: 2073-4395
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11040626
ISSN: 2073-4395
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11040626
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Reinoso Moreno, José Vicente; Pinna Hernández, María Guadalupe; Fernández Fernández, María Dolores; Sánchez Molina, Jorge Antonio; López Hernández, Juan Carlos; [et al.]Fecha
2021-03-25Resumen
This work presents an alternative for adding value to greenhouse crop residues, used for (1) heating and (2) as a CO2 source. Both options are focused on greenhouse agricultural production, but could be applied to other applications. The influence of factors, such as the air/fuel rate and turbulence inside the combustion chamber, is studied. Our results show that for pine pellets, olive pits, tomato-crop residues, and a blend of the latter mixed with almond prunings (75–25%), the thermal losses ranged from 19.5–53.1, 20.5–58.9, 39.9–95%, and 29.4–75.5%, respectively, while the NOX emissions were 30–247, 411–1792, and 361–2333 mg/Nm3, respectively. The above-mentioned blend was identified as the best set-up. The thermal losses were 39.2%, and the CO, NOX, and SO2 concentrations were 11,690, 906, and 1134 mg/Nm3, respectively (the gas concentration values were recalculated for 0% O2). Currently, no other work exists in the literature include a similar analysis performed using a boiler wi...
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biomass combustion
boiler efficiency
waste valorization
CO2 storage
heating applications
waste heat source