An Experimental study of kerosene usage and crude palm oil as diversification of fuel for a pressure stove

Muhamad Fatoni

Teknik Mesin Universitas Diponegoro Semarang

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Abstract

The price of the fuel continues to increase. Although the Indonesia Government's conversion program of the oil stove to the gas stove has been rolled, many households and the small industries still use kerosene stove, both pressure stove and wick stove. Since Indonesian is running out of petroleum reserve and the rise in the price of national Fuel Oil, people must be able to utilize the fuel that remaining fuel efficiently and try to look for the alternative fuel as substitution of the fuel that is made of fossil.

The cooking Efficiency is a comparison between the amount of the heat that absorbed by the cooking instruments and the amount of heat that produced from the process of the burning. In this test, the parameter that was used was the size of the fuel instead of its current, the strength of the pressure in the tank, and the type of fuel used.

The higher of the current aperture and the pressure as well as the mixing composition of crude the Oil palm in the kerosene made the efficiency in cook decrease. the Highest efficiency to kerosene was 46.77 % whereas with the kerosene composition of 90 % and Crude the Oil palm of 10 %, the highest efficiency became 41.07 %. a hundred percents use of CPO directly to the Pressure Stove was not possibe without the existence of a modification process.

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