Gasification of Oil Palm Shells and Empty Fruit Bunches to Produce Gas Fuel

Aktawan, Agus and Maryudi, Maryudi and Salamah, Siti and Astuti, Erna (2020) Gasification of Oil Palm Shells and Empty Fruit Bunches to Produce Gas Fuel. Key Engineering Materials, 849. pp. 3-7. ISSN 1662-9795

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Abstract

National energy needs have been met by non-renewable energy resources, such as natural
gas, petroleum, coal and so on. However, non-renewable energy reserves are depleting and there
will be an energy crisis. Conversion of biomass into energy is one solution to overcome this.
Indonesia, with its biodiversity, has enormous biomass potential, especially from oil palm
plantations and also sugar cane plantations. From the oil palm plantation point of view, oil palm
shells and oil palm empty fruit bunches are side products. These wastes can be treated with
gasification technology to produce gas fuel. The gasification tool model used in this study is a
downdraft gasifier equipped with a cyclone to separate gases with solids or liquids resulting from
the gasification process. The results of the gasification process show that the more feeds are
introduced, the more syngas is produced during the gasification process. The more feeds, the longer
the syngas release time. The two variables have a correlation, that is, between the weight of syngas
and the time for syngas removal to increase in line with the addition of the amount of feed entered.
Syngas analysis of oil palm empty fruit bunches contains 4.959% H2 and 5.759% CO. Whereas the
analysis of syngas of oil palm shells contained 2.524% H2, 6.391% CO, and 0.895% CH4.

Item Type:	Artikel Umum
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisi / Prodi:	Faculty of Industrial Technology (Fakultas Teknologi Industri) > S1-Chemical Engineering (S1-Teknik Kimia)
Depositing User:	Maryudi ST, MT, Ph.D
Date Deposited:	25 Feb 2021 08:01
Last Modified:	25 Feb 2021 08:01
URI:	http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/22690

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