JP2008208279A - Biofuel manufacturing treatment method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a biofuel production processing method that does not employ a chemical method and that is safe and improves combustion efficiency by applying physical treatment to various biofuel feedstocks.
The biofuel production treatment method of the present invention is a treatment for high-frequency electromagnetic radiation, application of a high-pressure electrostatic field, application of high-pressure nanobubbles, thread filtration, and enzyme addition to a biofuel raw material. A plurality of types of treatments combining these are performed to obtain biofuel supplied to the combustion equipment.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a biofuel production treatment method, and more particularly to a novel biofuel production treatment method in which physical treatment and enzyme treatment are applied to various biofuel raw materials.

Heavy oil, which is a fossil fuel, is obtained by fractional distillation from crude oil, and is fractionated in order from the one having the lowest boiling point, and finally is obtained by fractionating the residual oil under reduced pressure.
As a result, carbon becomes C17 or higher, the flash point becomes 60 degrees or higher, and it belongs to the fourth class of third petroleum under the dangerous goods control law. Since heavy oil is rich in carbon in this way, PM... HC, SOx, NOx inhibits the original combustion efficiency and lowers the efficiency of combustion heat.

  In recent years, various technological developments have been actively carried out to use various biofuel raw materials as fuels for combustion equipment such as boilers and diesel engines. Most of these are chemical methods mainly based on the methyl ester method. In this case, a complicated wastewater treatment process is indispensable, and the treatment cost is inevitably increased.

Patent Document 1 proposes a biodiesel fuel composition in which biodiesel fuel containing a fatty acid methyl ester as a main component is mixed with light oil, and a technique for using the biodiesel fuel composition. However, this Patent Document 1 also follows the chemical method mainly based on the methyl ester method.
JP 2007-016089 A

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is that the chemical method is not adopted, and physical treatment and enzyme treatment are applied to various biofuel raw materials, and the safety is improved, combustion efficiency is improved, and wastewater treatment is not required. There is no biofuel production processing method that can realize the above.

  The biofuel production treatment method of the present invention is a biofuel raw material, one treatment among the treatments of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation, high-pressure electrostatic field application, high-pressure nanobubble application, thread filtration and enzyme addition, or a combination thereof. The most important feature is to carry out multiple types of treatment to make it a biofuel to be supplied to combustion equipment.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, one of the treatments of high frequency electromagnetic radiation, application of high-pressure electrostatic field, application of high-pressure nanobubbles, thread-type filtration, enzyme addition or a combination of these is applied to the biofuel raw material. Since the biofuel supplied to the combustion equipment is subjected to a plurality of types of treatment, a biofuel production processing method capable of obtaining a biofuel with a comprehensively excellent combustion efficiency can be provided.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to provide a biofuel production processing method capable of reducing carbon in a biofuel feedstock and thereby obtaining a biofuel with high combustion efficiency.

  According to invention of Claim 3, the biofuel raw material is activated by the application of a high-pressure electrostatic field, and a biofuel production processing method that can obtain biofuel having high combustibility can be provided.

  According to the invention of claim 4, a biofuel capable of obtaining a biofuel with high combustion efficiency by shortening the combustion time and improving the ignition delay time by applying high-pressure nanobubbles to the biofuel raw material A manufacturing processing method can be provided.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to provide a biofuel production processing method capable of obtaining a high-quality biofuel by thread filtration.

  According to invention of Claim 6, the biofuel manufacturing processing method which can obtain the biofuel which improved the cetane number using the bacterial growth effect by the process of enzyme addition can be provided.

  The present invention provides a biofuel manufacturing treatment method that does not employ a chemical method and that is safe by applying physical treatment to various biofuel feedstocks, and that can improve combustion efficiency and eliminate the need for wastewater treatment. The purpose of providing was realized by a configuration in which the biofuel raw material is treated with high-frequency electromagnetic radiation and supplied to combustion equipment.

  Hereinafter, a biofuel production processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the biofuel production treatment method according to the present embodiment is a high-frequency electromagnetic radiation, high-pressure electrostatic field application, high-pressure nanobubble application, thread filtration, pH adjustment, and enzyme addition to various biofuel raw materials. A basic feature is that a biofuel to be supplied to a combustion device is obtained by performing one of these processes or a combination of these processes. Each process will be described individually below.

(Example 1): High-frequency electromagnetic wave radiation A biofuel production processing method according to Example 1 will be described below.

  The biofuel production processing method according to the first embodiment uses a multi-screw (multi-vortex) method to radiate high-frequency electromagnetic waves to a liquid fuel such as heavy oil that is a biofuel raw material (gasification and fusion technology). Is used to reform heavy oil and make it possible to greatly improve its combustion efficiency.

Fossil fuels such as heavy oil are composed of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
When carbon burns completely, it becomes CO ₂ and hydrogen becomes H ₂ O. As the number of carbon atoms decreases, soot is not generated and combustion efficiency is improved. In other words, the biofuel production treatment method according to the first embodiment reduces the number of carbons such as heavy oil and gasifies them accordingly. Consent with fractionator.

  More specifically, a heavy oil composed of carbon and hydrogen is caused to collide with a high-frequency electromagnetic wave caused by specially calculated multi-wave radiation, thereby generating a resonance phenomenon and resolving the chemical bond, Nitrogen and sulfur, which are impurities, resonate while being gasified, and the oil state is formed in the same state as complete combustion. As a result, the carbon number is reduced.

  As all materials get closer to their ignition and melting points, the time they become flammable is shortened. For example, the ignition point of heavy oil is in the range of 250 to 380 degrees, and when the carbon decreases, the temperature rises and the fuel easily burns. This is the reason why the boiler's fuel economy improves in summer and worse in winter.

By reducing the carbon of the heavy oil by the biofuel production treatment method according to the first embodiment, the temperature increase of the heavy oil due to the combustion heat becomes a ratio based on the chemical formula of C + O ₂ → CO ₂ +395 KJ (1cal = 4.184J). But it does not reach its firing point.

In addition to carbon: C and hydrogen: H, heavy oil is composed of nitrogen: N and sulfur: S as impurities in a certain ratio. When heavy oil is completely burned, CO ₂ , water, N ₂ , and SO ₂ are sequentially obtained. Actually, CO, HC, NOx, and SOx are sequentially obtained. This is a cause of deterioration of environment, deterioration of combustion efficiency, and deterioration of durability of the heat engine.

  Due to the resonance phenomenon based on high frequency electromagnetic wave radiation by the multiple screw method according to the first embodiment, a part of heavy oil is gasified, and van der Waals force, which is a weak suction force acting between all molecules, is separated and clustered. And refined.

  Heat rise due to such carbon reduction, gasified fine bubbles, refined oil flows into a flow, has a strong cleaning power, elutes the long-time scale attached to the inner wall of the pipe, and mixes with bubbles -Refine (decompose) by stirring. Therefore, in a combustion device such as a boiler, the high combustion time is increased, that is, the combustion efficiency is improved.

  Next, a specific example of the biofuel production processing method according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 2, the biofuel production processing method according to the first embodiment is connected between an oil tank (not shown) and a boiler, and is provided on the outer periphery of an oil feeding pipe 1 that supplies, for example, A fuel oil, which is a biofuel raw material, to the boiler. On the other hand, the multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation means 2 composed of the multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation units 3A and 3B each having a rectangular parallelepiped box shape in a pair configuration is mounted, and the multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation means 2 is connected to a commercial power source (AC100V, 200V, etc.). A high-frequency power (for example, high-frequency power of several tens of thousands Hz, about 30 W) generated by the controller 4 provided with the power plug 5 is supplied to the multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation means 2, and A flows from the multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation means 2 through the oil feed pipe 1. Heavy oil is irradiated with high-frequency electromagnetic waves by a multiple screw method.
The multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation means 2 and the controller 4 constitute a multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation device 10.

  The pair of multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation units 3A, 3B includes recesses 6 for fitting to the semicircular oil feeding pipes 1 at the opposing end surface portions, and, for example, each of the six magnetic poles is built in a semicircular arrangement. When mounted on the outer periphery of the oil pipe 1, the magnetic pole structure has a total of 12 poles that are arranged in a circular shape as a whole. Irradiate.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the pair of multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation units 3A and 3B includes projecting pieces 7 on opposite sides on both sides, and the oil feeding pipe 1 is connected by the multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation units 3A and 3B. They are put together so as to be sandwiched, and are attached to the outer periphery of the oil feeding pipe 1 using bolts 8 and nuts 9 and can be removed.

  Furthermore, the number of the multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation means 2 constituting the multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation device 10 for the oil feeding pipe 1 is arbitrary as shown in FIG. In this case, as shown in FIG. 4, as the number of devices increases, the processing efficiency for the A heavy oil in the oil feeding pipe 1 is improved.

  Regarding the relationship between the recesses 6 of the pair of multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation units 3A and 3B and the pipe diameter (outer diameter) of the oil feeding pipe 1, the oil feeding pipe 1 having a pipe diameter of 20 mm, 30 mm, and 50 mm can be easily mounted. Further, it is possible to adopt a configuration corresponding to the oil feeding pipe 1 having a pipe diameter of 80 mm and 100 mm.

  FIG. 5 shows the result of a kerosene reforming experiment performed by the biofuel production processing method according to the first embodiment. In the boiler boiling time, 11.8% reforming was achieved, and in the amount of heavy oil A (kerosene) used, 28.6% reforming was achieved. Furthermore, the number of burnings also decreased.

(Example 2): Application of high-voltage electrostatic field A biofuel production treatment method according to Example 2 will be described below. The biofuel production processing method according to the second embodiment is a biofuel supplied to combustion equipment by performing a high-pressure electrostatic field application process on a biofuel raw material such as vegetable oil.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 6, a high voltage generated by a high voltage generator 20 connected to a commercial power supply 21 is supplied to an electrode 22 disposed in the oil layer 23, and a high-voltage electrostatic field is applied to the vegetable oil in the oil layer 23. Is applied. The high voltage generator 20 has a variable voltage and variable frequency configuration. In FIG. 6, reference numeral 24 denotes an oil feeding pipe.

  Thereby, the vegetable oil in the oil layer 23 is activated by the effect | action of a high voltage | pressure electrostatic field, the proliferation of the microbe in vegetable oil can be aimed at, and it can be set as the biofuel which has high combustibility.

(Example 3): High-pressure nanobubble A biofuel production treatment method according to Example 3 is described below. The biofuel production treatment method according to the third embodiment is, for example, by supplying high-pressure (for example, 40 MPa) nanobubbles to a biofuel raw material such as vegetable oil and mixing it, and adding a fine air component to the vegetable oil or the like. It is possible to accelerate the reaction with the combustion air during combustion, shorten the combustion time, improve the ignition delay time, and improve the combustion efficiency comprehensively.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, high-pressure nanobubbles generated by the high-pressure nanobubble generator 30 connected to the commercial power supply 31 are sent into the vegetable oil in the oil layer 33 through the nozzle 32, and fine air components are added to the vegetable oil. It is included. In FIG. 7, 34 is an oil feeding pipe.

(Example 4): Thread-type filtration A biofuel production treatment method according to Example 4 will be described below. As shown in FIG. 8, the biofuel production treatment method according to the fourth embodiment allows a biofuel raw material such as vegetable oil to pass through a thread-type filtration device 41 and, for example, an unnecessary substance (for example, dust) having an outer diameter of 3 μm or more. It is intended to be a high-quality biofuel with the removal removed. In FIG. 8, reference numeral 42 denotes an oil feeding pipe.

  The thread type filtration device 41 is a combination of the advantages of the sand filtration method and the large pore size filtration method, and is configured to filter vegetable oil or the like using a filtration filter having a mesh size of 3 μm, for example.

(Example 5): Enzyme treatment A biofuel production treatment method according to Example 5 will be described below. As shown in FIG. 9, the biofuel production treatment method according to the present embodiment 5 contains a biofuel raw material such as vegetable oil in one end in the oil layer 50, and contains bacterial enzymes and triglycerides (neutral lipids) in the oil layer 50. These are made to react, and a biofuel that improves the cetane number (self-fuel property of diesel fuel) by utilizing the growth effect of bacteria is obtained. In FIG. 9, 51 is an oil feeding pipe.

  As described above, the biofuel production processing method according to the embodiment of the present invention performs each of the processes described in Embodiments 1 to 5 on various biofuel raw materials. 1 to 5 can be used to produce biofuel, or a combination of these can be used to produce biofuel to be supplied to combustion equipment. In addition, the biofuel can be excellent in combustion efficiency.

  FIG. 10 shows an electrolyzed water generating device 60 that is combined as necessary for the implementation of the biofuel production processing method according to the embodiment of the present invention. Electrolyzed water having no pH change over time is obtained.

  The present invention can be widely applied as a biofuel production technique for a wide range of combustion equipment such as boilers and various engines. In addition, the biofuel production treatment method according to the present invention can also use Yattle fur, a plant produced in India, as a biofuel raw material.

It is process explanatory drawing which shows the basic concept of the biofuel manufacturing processing method which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is the schematic which shows the structure of the multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation apparatus for implementing the biofuel manufacturing processing method which concerns on Example 1 of this invention, and an oil-feeding pipe. It is a schematic explanatory drawing which shows the mounting aspect to the oil feeding pipe of a pair of multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation unit in the multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation apparatus which concerns on the present Example 1. FIG. It is a schematic graph which shows the relationship between the number of installation apparatuses to the oil feeding pipe of the multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation apparatus which concerns on a present Example, and efficiency. 2 is a table showing the results of a kerosene reforming experiment performed by the biofuel production processing method according to Example 1. FIG. It is the schematic which shows the structure of the high voltage electrostatic field application apparatus for implementing the biofuel manufacturing processing method which concerns on Example 2 of this invention, and an oil-feeding pipe. It is the schematic which shows the structure of the high pressure nano bubble generator for implementing the biofuel manufacturing processing method which concerns on Example 3 of this invention, and an oil-feeding pipe. It is the schematic which shows the structure of the thread type | mold filtration apparatus and oil-feeding pipe for enforcing the biofuel manufacturing processing method which concerns on Example 4 of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the structure for implementing the enzyme addition process which is the biofuel manufacturing processing method which concerns on Example 6 of this invention. It is the schematic of the electrolyzed water generating apparatus combined with the biofuel manufacturing processing method which concerns on the Example of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Oil supply pipe 2 Multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation means 3A Multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation unit 3B Multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation unit 4 Controller 5 Power plug 6 Recessed part 7 Protrusion piece 8 Bolt 9 Nut 10 Multiple electromagnetic wave irradiation apparatus 20 High voltage generation part 21 Commercial power supply 22 Electrode 23 Oil layer 24 Oil supply pipe 30 High-pressure nanobubble generator 31 Commercial power supply 32 Nozzle 33 Oil layer 34 Oil supply pipe 41 Thread type filter 42 Oil supply pipe 50 Oil layer 60 Electrolyzed water generator

Claims (6)

  A biofuel material is subjected to high-frequency electromagnetic radiation, application of high-pressure electrostatic field, application of high-pressure nanobubbles, thread-type filtration, enzyme treatment, or multiple types of treatments that combine these treatments. A biofuel production processing method, characterized in that the biofuel is supplied.   A biofuel production processing method, characterized in that a biofuel raw material is treated with high-frequency electromagnetic radiation to provide a biofuel to be supplied to a combustion device.   A biofuel production processing method, characterized in that a biofuel feedstock is processed by applying a high-pressure electrostatic field to a biofuel material to be supplied to combustion equipment.   A biofuel production processing method, characterized in that a biofuel feedstock is treated with high-pressure nanobubbles to provide biofuel to be supplied to combustion equipment.   A biofuel production processing method, characterized in that a biofuel feedstock is subjected to a thread-type filtration process to be supplied to a combustion device.   A biofuel production processing method characterized in that a biofuel raw material is subjected to an enzyme addition process to provide a biofuel to be supplied to a combustion device.

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