Fuel analysis

The analysis of combustion products presents problems of complexity similar to that of feedstock and raw fuel analysis. A highly complex matrix of aliphatic material often exists (as unburnt fuel in the combustion exhaust), whilst the species of interest, for example, carcinogens or mutagens are often at very low concentrations. A classic example of multidimensional GC is its use in the analysis of flue-cured tobacco essential oil condensate. 

The flame photometric detector has been found to be versatile in pesticide analysis, food putrefaction, air pollution, and for fuel analysis. 

For each mole of C burned, one mole of CO2 is formed. From the fuel analysis used there are 110.6 moles C per 100 moles of fuel, and there are also 110.6 moles of COi formed from the 110.6 moles C in the fuel. From the flue gas analysis, there are 100/10.4 = 9.62 moles of dry flue gas per mole of C02. The 100 moles of fuel will then yield 110.6 x 9.62 = 1,064 moles of dry flue gas. By the application of the mole method, an important value has been quickly determined through knowing only the flue gas analysis and the fuel analysis. 

DIN. 2004. Standards for Fuel Analysis. Deutsches Institut fur Normung, Berlin. Specifically ... 

Radiochemical analysis will continue to be important in many aspects of the use of nuclear fuels, including spent-fuel analysis monitoring reprocessing for process performance or safeguards analyzing environmental samples for contamination and... 

Interferences from naturally occurring organic compounds are a common source of elevated RLs and false positive results in petroleum fuel analysis by EPA Method 8015, pesticide analysis by EPA Method 8081, and herbicide analysis by EPA Method 8151. 

Petroleum fuel analysis does not require second column or second detector confirmation. Fuels are identified based on their fingerprints or characteristic patterns of multiple peaks similar to ones shown in Figure 2.5. Each peak represents an individual chemical constituent, and each fuel has a unique combination of these constituents forming a characteristic pattern or a fingerprint. The fingerprints obtained... 

Some general applications of TG-FTIR are evolved gas analysis, identification of polymeric materials, additive analysis, determination of residual solvents, degradation of polymers, sulphur components from oil shale and rubber, contaminants in catalysts, hydrocarbons in source rock, nitrogen species from waste oil, aldehydes in wood and lignins, nicotine in tobacco and related products, moisture in pharmaceuticals, characterisation of minerals and coal, determination of kinetic parameters and solid fuel analysis. 

The process is a steady state process with reaction. With 10 % excess air it is unlikely that there is any H2 in the exit gases. Based on the given exit gas analysis and given excess air, we can calculate the fuel analysis and see if it is reasonable. Do not forget the water in the exit gas ... 

The fiiel-feeding rate for all the experiments in the larger gasifier was 8 kg/h and based on this and the fuel analysis the required stoichiometric air was calculated. For the highest k (supplied air /stoichiometric air demand) used in the gasification experiments (0.3) the temperature was maintained at approximately 800°C. This temperature could be maintained also at X=0.25 but at the two lowest air to fuel ratios the temperature dropped significantly, for X=0.16 the lowest recorded temperature was 744 C. 

Two different pelletized fUels were used, Miscanthus and sawdust. The fuel analysis for both fuels is shown in table 1. In the smaller gasifier the Miscanthus pellets had been ground and sieved to a fraction of 1-1.35 mm which then was used in the experiments. 

Fuel analysis results presented in Table 1 provide a comparison between the biofuels and coal. On an as-fired basis, the four bio els had significantly lower calorific values (8- 3 MJ/kg) compared to coal (21 MJ/kg), partly attributable to the higher moisture content of the biofuels. Also, biofuels had lower ash and fixed carbon contents but relatively higher volatile matter contents than both coal and bark/coal blend. 

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