Experimental and analytical evaluation of NOX emissions in bagasse boilers

✍ Scribed by Flavio Neves Teixeira; Electo Silva Lora

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 198 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-9534
• DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2003.08.013

✦ Synopsis

The Nitrogen Oxides (NOX ) have been considered worldwide as one of the major causes of acid rain; one must also acknowledge both its phytotoxic e ect and it role in the ozone formation process in the stratosphere. In that way, some countries are monitoring and restricting the emission of such pollutant gases within pre-established standards. Nevertheless, in Brazil, little has been done with relation to the NOX control and the Brazilian and International technical data on bagasse-fuelled boiler emission do not su ce. This work compare measured data on performance and emissions at the Monte Alegre sugarcane mill located in Minas Gerais, with predicted values from empirical correlations of NOX emissions. The in uence of both boiler control, such as excess air ratio, and boiler load on emissions was also evaluated.