1Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Asra College of Engg. & Technology, Bhawanigarh, India
2Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Asra College of Engg. & Technology, Bhawanigarh, India
3Research Scholar, Mechanical Engineering Department, Asra College of Engg. & Technology, Bhawanigarh, India
Online published on 18 March, 2017.
Energy is vital for the social and economic development of any nation. The demand of energy is increasing rapidly world widely with development of civilization and growing industrialization. The requirement of energy demand is met by fossil fuels or conventional energy sources. But due to the depletion of fossil fuels there is an urgent need to effectively tap the non conventional and renewable energy sources. The investigations take place in a 32.5TPH boiler of Vishal Paper Mill (VPM), Khusropur. Vishal paper mill Owner took step to use non conventional source of energy, when they set up a 32.5TPH boiler in village Khusropur (Dist. Patiala, Punjab). The whole unit of boiler setup was designed and manufactured by Cheema Boilers Ltd.(CBL) India. This is basically a mini thermal plant in which the heat energy is released on the combustion of biomass and pet coke. The plant works on the 100% biomass, 100% pet coke and co-firing of rice husk with coal based upon the load and availability of the fuel. The agglomeration samples were also collected from the plant. The agglomeration is the most commonly occurred problem in the fluidized bed combustion which is frustrating for the operator and sometimes the operation has to be stopped leading to the production and money loss. During the time of study plant uses 100% pet coke and 80% rice husk + 20% pet coke as the fuel. The main purpose of this study is to determine the causes of the agglomeration while using the pet coke only and for co-firing for this SEM analysis is done on the agglomerate collected from the plant
Fluidized bed combustion, Scanning electron microscope, Pet coke, Rice husk
