Monitoring of wood briquettes combustion parameters depending on share waste materials obtained from refining process of base oils and paraffin

Abstract

© 2016, Scibulcom Ltd. All rights reserved. In the paper was presented experimental installation for monitoring parameters of the wood briquettes combustion process. The combustion process depends on the share wood sawdust and the waste material from refining process of base oils and paraffin. This is waste material from technology process after solvent dewaxing. In order to improve the physical and chemical properties of base oils and paraffin, method of treatment with active clay is used for generating a certain amount of oily waste material called filter cake. In this work determination of optimum ratio between wood sawdust, oil filter cake and paraffin filter cake was done in order to obtain an alternative fuel (ecological briquette) that can be safely used from energy-environmental aspects in certain types of fire boxes. The paper presents results of experimental researches achieved by combustion of ecological briquettes in type fire box. The results showed that the oil filter cake and paraffin filter cake in proper ratio can be mixed with sawdust generating briquette that can be used as fuel in furnaces for central heating. This work also showed that the products of combustion process are not harmful to human life and working environment. After solvent dewaxing, in order to improve the physical and chemical properties of base oils and paraffin, method of treatment with active clay is used for generating a certain amount of oily waste material called filter cake.