Premixed combustion of coconut oil in a hele-shaw cell

*Hadi Saroso  -  Department of Mechanical Engineering, State Polytechnic of Malang, Indonesia
I.N.G. Wardana  -  Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Brawijaya University, Indonesia
Rudy Soenoko  -  Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Brawijaya University, Indonesia
Nurkholis Hamidi  -  Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Brawijaya University, Indonesia
Published: 15 Oct 2014.
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Section: Original Research Article
Language: ENG
In Vol 3, No 3 (2014): October 2014
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Abstract

Coconut oil combustion characteristic is observed experimentally by evaporating oil in the boiler then mix it with air before being burned at various equivalence ratios in the Hele-shaw cell. The result shows that, coconut oil tends to break into glycerol and fatty acid due to hydrolysis reaction producing the flame propagation, where the fatty acid flame propagates first then glycerol flame. Micro-explosion occurs when moisture from fatty acid combustion is absorbed by glycerol and higher heating due to higher flame speed produces more micro-explosion.

Keywords: Premixed combustion; coconut oil; glycerol; fatty acid; micro-explosion

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