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A comparative performance study in terms of thermal efficiency and emissions characteristics (CO and NOx) of canister based methanol cookstove and kerosene wick cookstove are presented in this work. Experimental results showed that the methanol cookstove yielded a maximum efficiency of 63.2%, while in the case of the kerosene wick cookstove, it was only 56.8%. The methanol cookstove showed clean burning as the emissions of CO and NOx were found to be around 154 ppm and 0.3 ppm, respectively, whereas the respective values for kerosene wick cookstove were 286 ppm and 0.9 ppm, respectively. Compared to kerosene wick cookstove, cleaner combustion in methanol cookstove leads to a maximum percentage improvement in combustion efficiency by 4.7%. Comparative results of thermal and emission performances of studied cookstoves show that the canister based methanol cookstove is a competent alternative to kerosene wick cookstoves.
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Abbreviations
- APL:
-
Assam Petrochemicals Limited
- \(\eta_{{{\text{comb}}}}\) :
-
Combustion efficiency, %
- \(T_{2}\) :
-
Final temperature of water, °C
- \(T_{1}\) :
-
Initial temperature of water, °C
- LPG:
-
Liquified Petroleum Gas
- \({\text{LCV}}_{{{\text{fuel}}}}\) :
-
Lower calorific value of fuel, kJ/kg
- \(m_{{{\text{fuel}}}}\) :
-
Mass of fuel, kg
- M :
-
Mass of pan, kg
- m :
-
Mass of water, kg
- \(C_{{\text{p}}}\) :
-
Specific heat of pan, kJ/kg k
- \(C_{{\text{w}}}\) :
-
Specific heat of water, kJ/kg k
- \(\eta_{{{\text{th}}}}\) :
-
Thermal efficiency, %
- WBT:
-
Water Boiling Test
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This work was supported by Assam Petrochemicals Limited (APL) by providing methanol and canister based methanol cookstoves for testing and comparison.
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Maurya, P., Arun Kumar, M., Kaushik, L.K., Muthukumar, P., Anandalakshmi, R. (2022). Comparison of Thermal and Emission Performance of Canister Based Methanol Cookstove with Kerosene Wick Cookstove. In: Palanisamy, M., Natarajan, S.K., Jayaraj, S., Sivalingam, M. (eds) Innovations in Energy, Power and Thermal Engineering . Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4489-4_15
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