E-NUMBER COMPARISONS

(based on H&MB work)

HEFEI, 7m MINBURI, 7m ECUADOR, 6m PETONE, 4.6m
(Oct'13) (Mar'13) (Mar'13) (Feb'11)
E4=1 MPT E4=0.7 E4=0.4 E4=0.4

New Core 38.5 Tb/hr 26.1 Tb/hr 11.3 Tb/hr 7.1 Tb/hr
Parameter Unit Current
Design
Natural Gas
Biomass Diesel Natural Gas
+ Sulphonation air
(Max) inlet
C 450 450 450 440 390 365
temp
Tower outlet
C ~100 ~100 98 112 104 94
temp

E1 Tw/m2/hr 0.32 0.43 0.40 0.24 0.16 0.17

E2 Tw/GJ 0.26 0.28 0.29 0.24 0.20
E3 Tw/Tb 0.4 0.43 0.40 0.36 0.39 0.41
E4 Tb/m2/hr 0.8 1 1.00 0.68 0.40 0.43
E5 Tb/Tfuel 32.4 12.5 37.2 26.7 29.3

GJ/Tb 1.65 1.43 1.24 1.63 2.05

Superficial m/s 1 max 1.2 1.01 0.74 0.53 0.78

velocity