TOMSK, Feb 8 – RIA Tomsk. Specialists of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) will burn waste from the oil industry, wood processing, as well as various household and office waste, to understand how to use them effectively and profitable as fuel, the university press service reports on Thursday.
According to the press service, a large number of industrial and domestic wastes accumulated in the Tomsk region, most of which are waste from oil and natural gas production, domestic and mixed water treatment, office garbage, logging and timber processing products.
It is these waste that TPU scientists suggest to use for the production of new fuel.
"We will study the heat of combustion, amount of energy needed for effective ignition, amount of emissions from burning fuels, potential costs of their preparation, transportation, storage ... By 2020 it is planned to complete the project – to get a complete database", – the engineer of the Heat-Mass Transfer Simulation Lab of TPU Ksenia Vershinina is quoted in the message.
The accumulated database will help to understand how new types of fuels will be effective, commercially viable, and also safe for the environment.It is specified that the results of the research will allow to reveal the advantages and disadvantages of new types of fuel in comparison with the most widespread and environmentally dangerous fuel – coal. On the basis of the created database it will be possible to develop and improve technologies for the use of fuels from wastes, to predict the models of their ignition and combustion.