Processing Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches

ISBN-13: 9783639105513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 180 str.

Nurhayati Abdullah

Opis

The pyrolysis process is an advanced conversiontechnology that has the ability to produce moreuseful and valuable pyrolysis liquids in 65-75% yieldon dry feed from a wide variety of waste and biomassstreams. The oil palm industry in Malaysia produceswastes in large quantities of empty fruit bunch [EFB]after shell and fibre, thus the presence of these oilpalm wastes has created a major disposal problem. There are two primary objectives discussed in thisbook. The first objective is to determine the fastpyrolysis conditions required to maximise thepyrolysis liquid yield from the EFB waste. Thesecond objective is to improve the quality andquantity of pyrolysis liquid by water washingpre-treatment of the EFB prior to pyrolysis. Pre-treatment technique by water washing has beendevised with particular emphasis on the removal ofash, which is required to modify the pyrolysisreaction sufficiently to produce homogenous bio-oil. The water washing experiments were designed with theobjective to gain a better understanding of the basicfactors impacting water washing of EFB that willprovide a basis for subsequent techno-economicoptimisation.

O autorze

Nurhayati Abdullah is a lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia,
Malaysia. She obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering from
Aston University, UK, MSc in Solid State Physics from Universiti
Sains Malaysia and BSc in Physics from Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia. Her research interest includes pyrolysis,biomass and
bioenergy.