Performance and Emission Analysis of a Novel Porous Radiant Burner for Domestic Cooking Application

ABSTRACT

Present study focuses on the performance and emission analysis of a novel porous radiant burner for domestic cooking application using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as fuel. The porous radiant burner (PRB) used here is a novel ceramic porous radiant burner which is designed and developed in the University laboratory for this present study. Two kinds of PRBs as circular porous radiant burner and square porous radiant burner have been developed and hence the thermal efficiency and emission analysis of these burners are tested for their performance. The test results are very encouraging as the thermal efficiency of the circular porous radiant burner and square porous radiant burner are much higher as compared to the conventional metallic burners or other types of burners. The emission characteristic also shows that the emission of CO and NOx values are much lesser than the conventional burner and are well within the world health organization standard. The experimental setup used here is a flexible one that contains PRBs, LPG cylinder, K- type thermocouple, data acquisition system, flue gas analyzer, Infrared camera and a computer. The maximum thermal efficiency obtained in that test for the PRB is about 72% which indicates its bright future prospect.

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Premananda Pradhan

Premananda Pradhan is currently pursuing his Ph.D. as a scholar in the School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, and is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, ITER,S'O'A University, Bhubaneswar. His research areas include: thermal systems design and optimization, burner design, burner flames and combustion, flame stability and porous medium heat transfer. He has authored 6 papers related to fluid flow and heat transfer in international and national journals and conference proceedings.

Purna Chandra Mishra

Purna Chandra Mishra obtained B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Berhampur University, Odisha, India in the year 2001, M.Tech. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in the years 2006 and 2011. He is currently working as a Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. His research interests are impingement heat transfer, nano-fluids, thermal systems design and optimization, combustion engineering, bio-fuels and computational fluid dynamics.

Bibhuti Bhusan Samantaray

Bibhuti Bhusan Samantray was an M.Tech. student at School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT University, Odisha, India, under the supervision of Dr. Mishra. He received his B. Tech degree in 2014 from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India, in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rungta Engineering College, Raipur, India.