TY - GEN
T1 - Design and Fabrication of a Gasifier for the Production of Liquid Fuel—A Case Study of Spondias mombin
AU - Rominiyi, O. L.
AU - Ikumapayi, O. M.
AU - Orumwense, E. O.
AU - Fatoba, O. S.
AU - Akinlabi, E. T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Biowaste can be transformed into an environmentally friendly fuel, resulting in a cleaner environment. The use of plum fruit (Spondias mombin) as a substrate in a biowaste energy conversion system is a solution to the problem of fossil fuel through gasification. The aim of this research is to design and fabricate a gasifier for liquid fuel production from S. mombin (plum seed). This work was achieved by harvesting, drying, and pulverizing of plum seed after which the detailed design of the gasifier was done with the aid of solidworks. Materials were carefully selected and purchased based on availability, cost, thermal properties, mechanical properties, and their physical properties. The reactor system which consists of the reactor, pipes, and bends, shell in tube condenser, and thermocouple were fabricated. The performance evaluation of the gasifier was carried out, and various parameters such as operating time, start-up time, total operating time, fuel combustion rate, specific gasification rate, and combustion zone rate were obtained as 0.167 h, 1.17 h, 1.417 h, 11.98 kg/h, 24.94 kg/m2 h, and 4.7 (m/h) respectively. The heat load of the condenser, the logarithmic mean temperature difference (LMTD), mass flow velocity, Reynold’s number of fluid entering the condensing unit, and volume of burning chamber were also obtained as 145 kJ, 25 °C, 0.5 kg/s, 4.5448, and 0.062 m3, respectively. The maximum pressure built up in the reactor was 0.05 bar, and quantity of liquid fuel produced was 10 ml.
AB - Biowaste can be transformed into an environmentally friendly fuel, resulting in a cleaner environment. The use of plum fruit (Spondias mombin) as a substrate in a biowaste energy conversion system is a solution to the problem of fossil fuel through gasification. The aim of this research is to design and fabricate a gasifier for liquid fuel production from S. mombin (plum seed). This work was achieved by harvesting, drying, and pulverizing of plum seed after which the detailed design of the gasifier was done with the aid of solidworks. Materials were carefully selected and purchased based on availability, cost, thermal properties, mechanical properties, and their physical properties. The reactor system which consists of the reactor, pipes, and bends, shell in tube condenser, and thermocouple were fabricated. The performance evaluation of the gasifier was carried out, and various parameters such as operating time, start-up time, total operating time, fuel combustion rate, specific gasification rate, and combustion zone rate were obtained as 0.167 h, 1.17 h, 1.417 h, 11.98 kg/h, 24.94 kg/m2 h, and 4.7 (m/h) respectively. The heat load of the condenser, the logarithmic mean temperature difference (LMTD), mass flow velocity, Reynold’s number of fluid entering the condensing unit, and volume of burning chamber were also obtained as 145 kJ, 25 °C, 0.5 kg/s, 4.5448, and 0.062 m3, respectively. The maximum pressure built up in the reactor was 0.05 bar, and quantity of liquid fuel produced was 10 ml.
KW - Gasifier
KW - LMTD
KW - Liquid fuel
KW - Mass flow velocity
KW - Spondias mombin
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-19-3307-3_12
DO - 10.1007/978-981-19-3307-3_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85141672698
SN - 9789811933066
T3 - Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
SP - 131
EP - 145
BT - Advances in Material Science and Engineering - Selected Articles from ICMMPE 2021
A2 - Emamian, Seyed Sattar
A2 - Awang, Mokhtar
A2 - Razak, Jeeferie Abd
A2 - Masset, Patrick J.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 7th International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing and Plant Engineering, ICMMPE 2021
Y2 - 29 November 2021 through 29 November 2021
ER -