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| dc.contributor.author | Lindstrom, Joel. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Lux, Scott M. | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-30T18:19:34Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2018-11-30T18:19:34Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-09 | - |
| dc.identifier.govdoc | ERDC/CERL TR-18-21 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11681/30440 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/30440 | - |
| dc.description | Technical Report | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), AK generates several thousand gallons of used vegetable oil (UVO) annually and expends over $10,000 annually to dispose of this waste. Shipping excess UVO over long distances for processing is both expensive and wasteful, when it would be more efficient, economical, and effective to use UVO on site as a fuel to heat water. The Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) and JBER began collaborating in December 2008 to investigate a solution to maximize the benefit of a 4000-gal annual production of UVO into a value-added commodity. This Phase II effort was undertaken to further develop and demonstrate the concept of using the UVO resource by using UVO as fuel for an advanced, multi-fuel water heater that would preheat domestic water entering the existing steam-water heating system in the building that houses the primary dining facility. This work designed a low maintenance UVO filtration and oil-burning system to support an opportunity assessment and pilot-scale implementation for the treatment and salvaging of UVO as a heating fuel at JBER. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Installation Technology Transition Program (U.S.) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Abstract .......................................................................................................................................................... ii Figures and Tables ........................................................................................................................................ iv Preface ............................................................................................................................................................. v 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Background ..................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Objectives ........................................................................................................................ 2 1.3 Approach ......................................................................................................................... 2 2 Used Vegetable Oil as a Heating Fuel ............................................................................................... 4 2.1 INOV8 Multi-fuel water heater system ........................................................................... 5 2.2 Cost analysis of target system ..................................................................................... 15 2.2.1 Equipment capital cost .......................................................................................................... 15 2.2.2 System installation cost ......................................................................................................... 16 2.2.3 System maintenance cost ..................................................................................................... 17 2.2.4 Annual cost savings ............................................................................................................... 18 2.2.5 Return on investment ............................................................................................................ 19 2.2.6 Warranty and service life ....................................................................................................... 19 2.2.7 Risk assessment .................................................................................................................... 20 2.2.8 System performance metrics ................................................................................................ 20 2.2.9 Other relevant factors ............................................................................................................ 21 2.2.10 Sealed combustion versus atmospheric combustion .......................................................... 21 3 Proposed Equipment Installation at JBER ..................................................................................... 23 3.1 Overview of proposed equipment installation ............................................................. 23 3.2 UVO filtration, piping, and storage ............................................................................... 24 3.3 Domestic water tie-in and mechanical room layout .................................................... 29 3.4 Sealed combustion vent and draft inducer ................................................................. 30 3.5 Cost of proposed equipment installation .................................................................... 36 3.6 Efforts to reduce the equipment installation cost ...................................................... 38 3.7 Decision to abandon the proposed equipment installation ....................................... 40 4 Potential Impact to U.S. Army .......................................................................................................... 41 4.1 Facility compatibility ..................................................................................................... 41 4.2 Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) and Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) ......................................................................................................... 42 5 Conclusions and Recommendation ................................................................................................ 43 Acronyms and Abbreviations .................................................................................................................... 44 References ................................................................................................................................................... 45 Report Documentation Page (SF 298) ................................................................................................... 48 | - |
| dc.format.extent | 56 pages / 2.573 Mb | - |
| dc.format.medium | PDF/A | - |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (U.S.) | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.) | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Technical Report (Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.)) ; no. ERDC/CERL TR-18-21 | - |
| dc.rights | Approved for Public Release; Distribution is Unlimited | - |
| dc.source | This Digital Resource was created in Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat | - |
| dc.subject | Vegetable oils | en_US |
| dc.subject | Recycling (Waste; etc.) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Waste products | en_US |
| dc.subject | Vegetable oils as fuel | en_US |
| dc.subject | Water heaters | en_US |
| dc.subject | Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (Alaska) | en_US |
| dc.title | Multi-fuel combustion technology for water heating with waste oil | en_US |
| dc.type | Report | en_US |
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