| Issue |
MATEC Web of Conferences
Volume 38, 2016
UTP-UMP Symposium on Energy Systems 2015 (SES 2015)
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| Article Number | 01008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Thermal Engineering & Energy Conversion | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20163801008 | |
| Published online | 11 January 2016 | |
An Experimental Study on Axial Temperature Distribution of Combustion of Dewatered Poultry Sludge in Fluidized bed combustor
1 Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 32610 Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia
2 PETRONAS Research Sdn. Bhd., Bangi, Malaysia
a Corresponding author: engabbas78@gmail.com
A laboratory scale bubbling fluidized bed combustor was designed and fabricated to study the combustion of dewatered poultry sludge at different operational parameters. This paper present a study on the influence of equivalent ratio, secondary to primary air ratio and the fuel feed rate on the temperature distribution along the combustor. The equivalent ratio has been changed between 0.8 to 1.4% under poultry sludge feed rate of 10 kg/h and from 0.8 to 1 under poultry sludge feed rate of 15 kg/h. The secondary to primary air ratio was varied from 0.1 to 0.5 at 0.65 m injection height and 1.25 equivalent ratio. The results showed that these factors had a significant influence on the combustion characteristics of poultry sludge. The temperature distribution along the combustor was found to be strongly dependent on the fuel feed rate and the equivalent ratio and it increased when these two factors increased. However, the secondary air ratio increased the temperature in the lower region of the combustor while no significant effect was observed at the upper region of the combustor. The results suggested that the poultry sludge can be used as a fuel with high thermal combustor efficiency.
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