The boiler concept for combustion of large soya straw bales

Rastko Mladenović, Dragoljub Dakić, Aleksandar Erić, Milica Mladenović, Milijana Paprika and Branislav Repić

Energy, 2009, vol. 34, issue 5, 715-723

Abstract: In one of the largest agricultural companies in Serbia, with over 2000ha of soya plantations, there are 4000t/year of baled soya straw produced. Soya straw biomass is planned to be used as a renewable energy source for heating the greenhouses, with 5ha in area. Therefore, efforts have been made to develop a technology for utilizing large bales of soya straw for energy production. In the first phase, a demo energy production facility-furnace was developed and built. The facility had been tested in order to examine the quality of combustion of large soya straw bales. Since experimental results of testing of this facility have proved to be very satisfactory, in the second phase of the development, a hot water boiler of similar characteristics (burning soya straw bales, with dimensions 0.7×1.2×2.7m3) has been designed.

Keywords: Soya straw; Boiler; Combustion; Bales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2009.02.003

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