Improvement of pelletized fruit bunch (EFB) of oil and rice husk by using torefaction and pre-treatment method

Dayang Nur Farah Zurina, Awg Salleh (2017) Improvement of pelletized fruit bunch (EFB) of oil and rice husk by using torefaction and pre-treatment method. [Final Year Project Report] (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Biomass is well known as an energy souree that had been used for a decade ago and had potential to replace the coal as an energy resource, Biomass had been used to develop country such as Europe and China, Malaysia has a largest biomass resource because the agricultures activities and some area still in natural forest. Most of the biomass were used in the form of pellet and a European country have been introduced a standard to produce a pellet. Biomass crop also has a higher moisture content and lower calorific value than coal. To increase the calorific value and lower the moisture content, torrefaction process had been introduced in this study to produce a better fuel quality. In this study, the material used was from herbaeeous biomass because of the abundant resources compared to woody biomass. Malaysia produced a lot of waste from rice husk and empty fruit bunch of palm oil because Malaysia is the second top producer of palm oil. Herbaceous biomass had a larger ash content than woody biomass and this can lead to slagging and fouling in boilers. To decrease the ash content a study to reduce the ash content had been conducted. Therefore the purposed of this study is to study the effect of torrefaction and pre-treatment method towards both materials.

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