Investigation of Slagging Fouling Aspect of Palm Fiber and Palm Leaves Waste in Drop Tube Furnace

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10.2991/978-94-6463-134-0_3How to use a DOI?

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Slagging; Fouling; Palm; Waste

Abstract

Biomass co-firing is one of alternative way for Coal-Fired Power Plant (CFPP) to achieve green energy. Indonesia as the world’s largest producer of palm oil, has the chance to convert palm oil waste into a relatively sustainable biomass for use as co-firing fuel in CFPP. Biomass combustion, on the other hand, can easily lead to ash deposition and corrosion in boilers. It is necessary to predict the slagging and fouling tendency of biomass combustion. This study aims to determine the combustion characteristics of 100% biomass in the form of palm fiber and palm leaves which is still limited study discussed about the comparation of palm fiber and palm leaves. Ash analysis, ash fusion temperature, drop tube furnace test and ash deposition were carried out on 100% palm oil biomass to determine co-firing composition between palm oil waste and coal which is suitable and safe for power plants. The experimental results show that during combustion affects the ash due to various physical and chemical properties. K₂O value of palm fiber is higher than palm leaves, this also makes the AFT value of palm fiber also lower when compared to palm leaves. Both palm fiber and palm leaves samples have a medium risk of slagging and corrosion but relatively low risk in fouling. Probe observation also showed that the probe surface was corroded when combusting single fuel biomass with a drop tube furnace, and the ash deposits on the probe temperature 600 ℃ have a higher amount than the probe temperature 550 ℃.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fairuz Milkiy Kuswa
AU  - Prabowo
AU  - Arif Darmawan
AU  - Hariana
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/04/19
TI  - Investigation of Slagging Fouling Aspect of Palm Fiber and Palm Leaves Waste in Drop Tube Furnace
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th Mechanical Engineering, Science and Technology International conference (MEST 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 15
EP  - 23
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-134-0_3
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-134-0_3
ID  - Kuswa2023
ER  -