STUDI PERBANDINGAN SIMULASI PROSES PEMBAKARAN BATUBARA DAN VINASSE METODE NON-PREMIX COMBUSTION MODEL

Vinasse as a sugarcane waste has large amount of debit that must be treated through various methods. One of the methods is combustion. Combustion is a chemical reaction that produced heat which is can be used as energy supply for further process. Vinasse according to proxymate and ultimate analysis has characteristic similar to coal after being evaporated. This paper is studied about the comparassion of combustion characteristic between vinasse and coal as a fuel in terms of temperature distribution, species distribution, and velocity vector. Combustion process conducted with computational fluid dynamics method especially non-premix combustion model. The geometry of furnace is 84 m x 5.2 m with the orthogonal quality of mesh is close to 1 and 100 percent of quad cells. The simulation of combustion process conducted in 2D (two dimensions) with air as oxydizer. The results of the simulation shows that vinasse were very potential to use as a fuel with quicker combustion compared to coal but with slightly different characteristic.