A comparative analysis of emissions from bagasse charcoal and wood charcoal
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, June 2005.
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| author | Ramírez, Andrés, 1982- |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/329412019-04-11T09:04:02Z A comparative analysis of emissions from bagasse charcoal and wood charcoal Ramírez, Andrés, 1982- David Wallace. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering. Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, June 2005. "May 2005." Includes bibliographical references (leaf 27). Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere and is in need of cheap cooking fuel source. Currently, lump charcoal, the cooking fuel of Haiti, is made by carbonizing trees in ditches before selling the charcoal at market. However, Haiti is now 98% deforested and must find a way to prepare their food that does not destroy their land. The idea for this new fuel comes from compressed and extruded carbonized bagasse, which was produced using an extruder developed in a senior product development class at MIT. Using this bagasse fuel, experiments were conducted to compare the combustion characteristics of the bagasse charcoals with wood charcoal. Unfortunately, the heat released by the bagasse charcoal did not compare favorably with that of the wood charcoal, failing to raise 1 L of water to boiling while the wood charcoal raised the water to boiling for 25 minutes. Since the bagasse charcoal performed similarly to Kingsford brand charcoal, the emissions released were compared between these two fuels. Based on their averages, the bagasse charcoal emitted 1.4 times more CO, 1.6 times more SO₂ and 2.3 times more particulates but only 17% of the NOx emitted by Kingsford. by Andrés Ramírez. S.B. 2006-05-15T20:40:45Z 2006-05-15T20:40:45Z 2005 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32941 62784231 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 27 leaves 1102484 bytes 1100975 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| title | A comparative analysis of emissions from bagasse charcoal and wood charcoal |
| title_full | A comparative analysis of emissions from bagasse charcoal and wood charcoal |
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| title_short | A comparative analysis of emissions from bagasse charcoal and wood charcoal |
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| topic | Mechanical Engineering. |
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