Migration from Gasoline to Gaseous Fuel for Small-scale Electricity Generation Systems
Abstract: This paper describes
a study that gives a consideration to change fuel source for electriccity
generator from gasoline to combustible gas. A gaseous fuel conversion
technology is presented and its performance is compared with gasoline. In the
experiment, two types of load were tested, resistive and resistive-inductive.
By using both fuels mostly the power factor (Cos φ) of resistive-inductive load
variations were greater than 0.8, and they had slight difference on operational
voltage. The drawback of using gaseous fuel is the frequency of the electricity
might be not reach the standard frequency (i.e. 50 Hz). In the lab scale
experiment, the gasoline consumption increased proportionally with the load
increase, while using gaseous fuel the consumption of gas equal also increased
where the average consumption value is 100 gram per 15 minutes operation for
the tested load in the experiment. The main advantage using gaseous fuel
(liquefied petroleum gas or biogas) compared to gasoline is a cleaner emitted
gas after combustion.
Author: Seno D. Panjaitan,
Yandri , Sukandar, Berlian Sitorus
Journal Code: jptkomputergg130021
