SPECIFIC EMISSIONS FROM BIOMASS COMBUSTION

Authors

  • Pavel Skopec Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Energy Engineering, Technicka 4, CZ-166 07 Praha 6
  • Jan Hrdlička Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Energy Engineering, Technicka 4, CZ-166 07 Praha 6
  • Michal Kaválek Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Energy Engineering, Technicka 4, CZ-166 07 Praha 6

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/AP.2014.54.0074

Abstract

This paper deals with determining the specific emissions from the combustion of two kinds of biomass fuels in a small-scale boiler. The tested fuels were pellets made of wood and pellets made of rape plant straw. In order to evaluate the specific emissions, several combustion experiments were carried out using a commercial 25 kW pellet-fired boiler. The specific emissions of CO, SO2 and NOx were evaluated in relation to a unit of burned fuel, a unit of calorific value and a unit of produced heat. The specific emissions were compared with some data acquired from the reference literature, with relatively different results. The differences depend mainly on the procedure used for determining the values, and references provide no information about this. Although some of our experimental results may fit with one of the reference sources, they do not fit with the other. The reliability of the references is therefore disputable.

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Published

2014-02-28

Issue

Vol. 54 No. 1 (2014)

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How to Cite

Skopec, P., Hrdlička, J., & Kaválek, M. (2014). SPECIFIC EMISSIONS FROM BIOMASS COMBUSTION. Acta Polytechnica, 54(1), 74-78. https://doi.org/10.14311/AP.2014.54.0074