CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HEAVY FUEL OIL WHICH IS USED FOR BURNING IN POWERPLANT "KOSOVO-B" BY FTIR-SPECTROSCOPY

Abstract

Last decade in Kosovo fuel oil it was used as a primary combustion heating material in most of public institutions, schools, powerplants etc. Our research focus is to characterize chemical composition of fuel oil before combustion by FTIR –Spectroscopy and other conventional physico-chemical parameters. Investigated results confirms high level of pollutants such as aromatic compounds, sulphur compounds and other oxygenated compounds based on their chemical analysis by different methods. This investigations suggest removing fuel oil from direct application as a combustion material and initiate investigation for separation of their components for different kind of application.

Keywords

• ftir-spectroscopy
• fuel oil
• powerplants
• pollution.