TY - GEN
T1 - A design of palm oil and diesel oil fuel mixture heater system for small scale diesel power plant
AU - Alvianingsih, Ginas
AU - K., Iwa Garniwa M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/12/18
Y1 - 2017/12/18
N2 - The high utilization and exploitation of fossil fuel have adverse environmental impacts and efforts to overcome these problems are called for. One of the options is to replace fossil fuel with palm oil which has many similar characteristics with diesel fuel. However, palm oil has higher viscosity level than diesel oil which may cause imperfect atomization in the nozzle. As a result, a heater is needed to alter the viscosity of the palm oil to be comparable to diesel oil's. Integrating the heater system into the diesel generator set, a fuel flow regulator is required to verify the viscosity level according to the standard of diesel engine. This research aims to design and analyze the performance of a heater system application on a small-scale diesel generator set with palm oil and diesel oil mixture fuel. The methods used are designing a system that is consisted of a fuel heater, a fuel flow regulator, and several supporting components based on literature study and measuring performance indicator of the integrated heater system and diesel generator under several conditions set for the experiments. From this study can be concluded that the diesel generator set operates under certain conditions such as up to 70oC fuel temperature and 50% CPO concentration in the fuel mixture. Implementation of this system produces electrical power and noise level similar to diesel fuel output. The fuel consumption and the exhaust gas temperature with palm-diesel oil mixture are higher than diesel input since palm oil has lower calorific value. The analysis of system's performance will be a valuable reference for future technological development.
AB - The high utilization and exploitation of fossil fuel have adverse environmental impacts and efforts to overcome these problems are called for. One of the options is to replace fossil fuel with palm oil which has many similar characteristics with diesel fuel. However, palm oil has higher viscosity level than diesel oil which may cause imperfect atomization in the nozzle. As a result, a heater is needed to alter the viscosity of the palm oil to be comparable to diesel oil's. Integrating the heater system into the diesel generator set, a fuel flow regulator is required to verify the viscosity level according to the standard of diesel engine. This research aims to design and analyze the performance of a heater system application on a small-scale diesel generator set with palm oil and diesel oil mixture fuel. The methods used are designing a system that is consisted of a fuel heater, a fuel flow regulator, and several supporting components based on literature study and measuring performance indicator of the integrated heater system and diesel generator under several conditions set for the experiments. From this study can be concluded that the diesel generator set operates under certain conditions such as up to 70oC fuel temperature and 50% CPO concentration in the fuel mixture. Implementation of this system produces electrical power and noise level similar to diesel fuel output. The fuel consumption and the exhaust gas temperature with palm-diesel oil mixture are higher than diesel input since palm oil has lower calorific value. The analysis of system's performance will be a valuable reference for future technological development.
KW - Diesel generator set
KW - Heater system
KW - Palm oil
KW - Small scale power generation
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U2 - 10.1109/ICHVEPS.2017.8225934
DO - 10.1109/ICHVEPS.2017.8225934
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85042791586
T3 - International Conference on High Voltage Engineering and Power Systems, ICHVEPS 2017 - Proceeding
SP - 156
EP - 164
BT - International Conference on High Voltage Engineering and Power Systems, ICHVEPS 2017 - Proceeding
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 International Conference on High Voltage Engineering and Power Systems, ICHVEPS 2017
Y2 - 2 October 2017 through 5 October 2017
ER -