Paper details

Title:

Estimating the Higher Heating Value of CVO And HCVO Fuels from Elemental Analysis

Author(s):

Augustin, C., Sievers, A., Willner, T.

Document(s):

Abstract:

The higher heating value (HHV) is an important parameter to evaluate fuels from biomass and wastes. In literature, there are a large number of formulas to calculate the HHV from the weight fractions of the elements for various substances. The measured HHV of 50 samples from cracked vegetable oil (CVO), hydrotreated cracked vegetable oil (HCVO), diesel and vegetable oil have been compared with the calculated values from the elemental composition. The oxygen content of the samples varies from 10.7 wt.-% for the raw material rapeseed oil to 0.09 wt.-% for pure diesel fuel. The best accordance of the compared formulas shows Boie’s equation [1] (general) HO[MJ/kg] = +0.3483*wC[%] +1.1591*wH[%] -0.1080*wO[%] +0.0628*wN[%] +0.1047*wS[%] with an average relative error of 0.5 %.

Keywords:

biofuel, high calorific value, chemical composition

Topic:

Biomass Conversion Technologies for Intermediates, Liquid and Gaseous Fuels, Chemicals and Materials

Subtopic:

Oil-based biofuels

Event:

22nd European Biomass Conference and Exhibition

Session:

3CV.2.41

Pages:

1187 - 1191

ISBN:

978-88-89407-52-3

Paper DOI:

10.5071/22ndEUBCE2014-3CV.2.41

Price:

FREE