Open AccessEffect of the ember element in increasing the efficiency of liquefied petroleum gas stoves
Author(s) -
Sudarno Sudarno,
Sudjito Soeparman,
Slamet Wahyudi,
Agung Sugeng Widodo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
istraživanja i projektovanja za privredu
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1821-3197
pISSN - 1451-4117
DOI - 10.5937/jaes0-28385
Subject(s) - stove , reflector (photography) , combustion , materials science , liquefied petroleum gas , reflection (computer programming) , boiling , environmental science , waste management , optics , engineering , chemistry , light source , physics , organic chemistry , computer science , programming language
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of use ember element from woven nickel wire to increasing the efficiency of the LPG stoves. It is supposed that high-temperature embers can burn more fuel around the wire, thereby increasing the area of complete combustion. The test was conducted by means of a Water Boiling Test (WBT) and the number of ember layers varied from one to four. It was found that the use of elements of fire without reflectors could increase efficiency by 8.32%, with the highest efficiency being with the use of a single layer ember element of the fire, of 61.71%. However, the use of elements of fire in the finned heat reflectors causes efficiency to decrease, as the pattern to put elements of fire interfere with the reflectivity. This means the heat reflection is blocked by the pattern and trapped between the reflector and pattern elements. As a result, the heat energy from the reflector reflection cannot be forwarded to the combustion zone. The test results also show that the temperature distribution from ember element use can increase the area of complete combustion.