Experiments regarding the combustion of camelina oil/kerosene mixtures on a burner

Camelina is well-suited to be a sustainable biofuel crop, as its seeds naturally have high oil content. The process of obtaining bio-kerosene from camelina oil by hydrotreatment is time-consuming and expensive, thus the possibility of using straight camelina oil/kerosene mixtures as fuel in terrestrial applications is considered. For this purpose, combustion tests were conducted on a burner. Three camelina oil/kerosene mixtures were tested. The influence of the variation of the fuel preheating temperature was also studied and presented. During the tests, the composition of the exhaust gas and its temperature were monitored and registered using two gas analysers. The results were compared with those obtained when the burner was fuelled with pure kerosene.