scholarly journals Performance Analysis of Non Burn Cooking Device Using Commercial Grade Quicklime as Heating Fuel

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
Niswan Dhakal ◽  
Bhakta Bahadur Ale ◽  
Nawraj Bhattarai

The need for portability and easy to handle devices has been felt by the trekkers and campers. In a country like Nepal, with tough geographical terrain and changing climates, a non burn cooking alternative is sought for outdoor cooking. Quicklime or Calcium Oxide (CaO) is commercially available in abundance. CaO releases 64 kJ of heat during slaking at Normal temperature and Pressure. Boiling of water, preparing tea, boiling egg, preparing omelet and preparing instant noodles were tested with an average of 32.7 % deviation from theoretical values without considering the manufacturing specification of 90 % purity. Calculating with the manufacturing specification, the error reduced to 27.3 %. Though cooking is correlated to the subjective preference of individuals, the highest cooking temperature was recorded 86.5 °C (boiling water), and the highest temperature of inner pot reached was 121.1 °C in that case. The highest temperature reached in each of cooking purposes were respectively as; boiling egg on water(75.6 °C), boiling egg without using water (11.2 °C), preparing tea(85.9 °C) and preparing instant noodles (68.3 °C). The quantity of cooing material resulted in higher efficiencies as evident by the factor that minimum deviation from theoretical calculation was seen during the cooking of noodles (17.5 %) and the maximum deviation was observed during preparation of boiled egg without using water or secondary pot (58.5 %). The device was not found financially feasible for household cooking and for cases where transportation cost incurred is high; the device was financially feasible (Rs. 14 as compared to above Rs. 400 and Rs. 250 of LPG based and kerosene based cooking respectively).

1935 ◽  
Vol 13b (5) ◽  
pp. 308-322
Author(s):  
P. E. Gishler ◽  
O. Maass

The conductivity and vapor pressure data of the system calcium-oxide–sulphur-dioxide–water presented in an earlier paper have been used to calculate ionic concentrations existing in this system, in the temperature and pressure range investigated. Two methods of calculation have been employed, one depending on the combination of vapor pressure and conductivity data, and the other, on conductivity data. For both, recourse was had to the data of Campbell and Maass on the system sulphur-dioxide–water. These methods gave results that are in good agreement with each other. The existence of a complex CaSO3.Ca(HSO3)2 was deduced.Hydrogen ion concentrations over the concentration and temperature range investigated have been calculated and extrapolations made to higher temperatures. These are presented in tabular form. Apart from the theoretical interest, it is pointed out that these results are of value in connection with studies of the delignification of wood by calcium-oxide–sulphur-dioxide–water solutions.


Author(s):  
C.M. Narayanan ◽  
Maneka Banik ◽  
Sayani Halder

In spite of the many-sided advantages of semifluidised bed bioreactors, no attempt has been made to simulate their performance mathematically. Only scattered experimental data are available in literature. In the present study, therefore, attempts have been made to simulate immobilized enzyme semifluidised bed bioreactors’ performance as equivalent to CSTR – PFR combinations, but with due allowances for the heterogeneity of the system. Bioconversions that follow Michaelis – Menten kinetics (with and without substrate inhibition) and reversible Michaelis – Menten kinetics have been considered. Substrate transfer into the particle (that accommodates the immobilized enzyme) is governed by the magnitude of effectiveness factor which is evaluated based on the generalized integral for the estimation of Thiele – type modulus and the corresponding correlation for effectiveness factor (as a hyperbolic tangent function) and also based on the analytical expression proposed by Gottifredi and Gonzo. Parameters such as operating semifluidisation velocity, porosity of fluidized section, height ratio of packed section to fluidized section are estimated from experimental correlations that are selected through elaborate trial and error procedure. Though the simulation model involves simplifications and empirical estimation of a few parameters, model results are found to exhibit reasonably good agreement with data collected through extensive experimental investigations, the maximum deviation being ±12.5 %. This confirms the acceptability of the software package developed. The developed software could be, therefore, recommended for the design and installation of industrial semifluidised bed bioreactors and also for the performance analysis of existing industrial bioreactors.


2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 4085-4094 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavlina Nanou ◽  
Wim P. M. van Swaaij ◽  
Sascha R. A. Kersten ◽  
Guus van Rossum

SINERGI ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Supriatno Supriatno

Utilization of hydrogen as an alternative fuel is promising because it is environmentally friendly. Hydrogen system design requires accurate hydrogen densities. The density of hydrogen is determined based on experimental data. For gases that have a low density such as hydrogen, the effective measurement method is required. An apparatus has been designed to measure PVT properties of hydrogen at pressures up to 1 MPa and temperatures up to 500ºC. The apparatus uses a combination of isochoric and expansion methods. The method doesn’t need a measurement of pressures and temperatures along the isochoric line as required usually in the isochoric conventional method. Moreover, it doesn't need direct measurements of gas mass and gas volume. The volume was determined by measuring nitrogen at a pressure of 0.5 MPa and at temperatures up to 500ºC and by using Span’s equation of state. Measurements of hydrogen have been performed at a pressure up to 0.7 MPa and temperatures up to 498.217ºC. Densities of hydrogen obtained from the present measurement are compared with that obtained from calculation of Leachman's equation of state. Maximum deviation is 1.42% at a temperature of 498.217ºC and at a pressure of 0.2947 MPa and minimum deviation is 0.11% at temperature and pressure of 399.461ºC and 0.6981 MPa respectively.


Author(s):  
Ronald S. Weinstein ◽  
N. Scott McNutt

The Type I simple cold block device was described by Bullivant and Ames in 1966 and represented the product of the first successful effort to simplify the equipment required to do sophisticated freeze-cleave techniques. Bullivant, Weinstein and Someda described the Type II device which is a modification of the Type I device and was developed as a collaborative effort at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The modifications reduced specimen contamination and provided controlled specimen warming for heat-etching of fracture faces. We have now tested the Mass. General Hospital version of the Type II device (called the “Type II-MGH device”) on a wide variety of biological specimens and have established temperature and pressure curves for routine heat-etching with the device.


Author(s):  
G.D. Danilatos

Over recent years a new type of electron microscope - the environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) - has been developed for the examination of specimen surfaces in the presence of gases. A detailed series of reports on the system has appeared elsewhere. A review summary of the current state and potential of the system is presented here.The gas composition, temperature and pressure can be varied in the specimen chamber of the ESEM. With air, the pressure can be up to one atmosphere (about 1000 mbar). Environments with fully saturated water vapor only at room temperature (20-30 mbar) can be easily maintained whilst liquid water or other solutions, together with uncoated specimens, can be imaged routinely during various applications.


Author(s):  
E. G. Rightor ◽  
G. P. Young

Investigation of neat polymers by TEM is often thwarted by their sensitivity to the incident electron beam, which also limits the usefulness of chemical and spectroscopic information available by electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) for these materials. However, parallel-detection EELS systems allow reduced radiation damage, due to their far greater efficiency, thereby promoting their use to obtain this information for polymers. This is evident in qualitative identification of beam sensitive components in polymer blends and detailed investigations of near-edge features of homopolymers.Spectra were obtained for a poly(bisphenol-A carbonate) (BPAC) blend containing poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) using a parallel-EELS and a serial-EELS (Gatan 666, 607) for comparison. A series of homopolymers was also examined using parallel-EELS on a JEOL 2000FX TEM employing a LaB6 filament at 100 kV. Pure homopolymers were obtained from Scientific Polymer Products. The PTFE sample was commercial grade. Polymers were microtomed on a Reichert-Jung Ultracut E and placed on holey carbon grids.


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