Physico-chemical Characteristics of Selected Alternative Fuels and their Mixtures with Carbon Fuels

Abstract

On the fuel market, we are increasingly faced with tendencies to create carbon-based fuel mixtures and high-energy by-products from the thermal processing of raw materials and waste. Frequent analysis of high-energy by-products and alternative fuels proves that for their fuel application is not always enough to know the heat of combustion and calorific value, but also the knowledge of the content of a number of chemical components and the assessment of their behavior in the combustion process and emission quality of combustion products is indispensable. In a number of cases, when the evaluated materials were ultimately unsuitable for the production of commercial fuel mixtures, the extended tests showed their suitability as fillers, sorbents and substrates for other targeted productions.