Eco-friendly, efficient and DME fired “Aditi Urja Sanch” Unit
The Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan inaugurated the DME fired “Aditi Urja Sanch” unit along with the DME-LPG blended fuel cylinders and handed them over for common public and CSIR-NCL (National Chemical Laboratory) canteen use on a trial basis at CSIR-NCL premises virtually through video-conferencing.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020
Key-Points
Dimethyl ether (DME) is an ultra-clean fuel.
CSIR-NCL has developed nation’s first kind of DME pilot plant with 20-24Kg/day capacity.
The conventional LPG burner is not suitable for DME combustion as DME density is different than LPG. To address this issue, CSIR- NCL’s “ADITI URJA SANCH” has come up with a helpful, innovative setup. The new Burner is fully designed and fabricated by NCL for DME, DME -LPG blended mixtures and LPG combustion.
Salient features of newly designed Burner are:
- The new design is efficient for both DME and the blend of DME and LPG.
- Novel design and flexible air ingress.
- The new nozzle design allows optimum oxygen ingress for combustion
- The angles at which nozzles are placed maximize the heat transfer area across the utensils.
- Optimum flame velocity can be obtained.
- The length of the flame (high, low, and medium) can be adjusted by altering the oxygen ingress.
- The experiment shows that it increases the heat transfer rate as well.