Malaysia has about 4.2 million hectares of oil palm plantation. The palm oil milling industry has over 400 mills throughout the country with total milling capacity of 82 million tonnes fresh fruit bunches, FFB, per year. In 2003, the amount of FFB processed was 67 million tonnes, which generated solid wastes in the forms of empty fruit bunches, EFB (19.43 million tonnes), mesocarp fibres (12.07 million tonnes) and palm kernel shell (4.89 million tonnes). These wastes has moisture content of 60–70% for EFB and mesocarp fibre, and 34–40% for palm kernel shell, and calorific value of 5.0 – 18.0 Mj/kg. A processing technology was developed to process these low quality biomass fuels into high quality solid biofuel briquettes with moisture content in the range 8–12%. Depending on the formulations and the sources of the raw biomass, the final solid biofuel briquettes can have calorific values in the range of 18–25 Mj/kg. The production of the solid biofuel briquettes would be an attractive financial advantage for full exploitation of biomass fuels. Logistic problems due to the disperse nature of the biomass resources would significantly be addressed.
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ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences
July 19–23, 2009
San Francisco, California, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Advanced Energy Systems Division and Solar Energy Division
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978-0-7918-4889-0
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High Quality Solid Biofuel Briquette Production From Palm Oil Milling Solid Wastes Available to Purchase
Abd Halim Shamsuddin,
Abd Halim Shamsuddin
Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Selangor, Malaysia
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Mohd Shahir Liew
Mohd Shahir Liew
Renewable Resources Technology Management, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Abd Halim Shamsuddin
Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Selangor, Malaysia
Mohd Shahir Liew
Renewable Resources Technology Management, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Paper No:
ES2009-90122, pp. 125-130; 6 pages
Published Online:
September 29, 2010
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Shamsuddin, AH, & Liew, MS. "High Quality Solid Biofuel Briquette Production From Palm Oil Milling Solid Wastes." Proceedings of the ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Volume 1. San Francisco, California, USA. July 19–23, 2009. pp. 125-130. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ES2009-90122
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