Abstract
Fast pyrolysis of oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) has been conducted in an auger reactor to produce bio-oil. The reactor was a continuous feeding auger reactor heated by gas-fired external heater. The experiments were conducted under different operating temperatures ranging from 400 °C to 650 °C, different nitrogen flow rates ranging from 1 to 4 L/min, and various feeding rates ranging from 2 to 8 kg/h. The maximum yield of bio-oil from EFB was 58.67 % obtained at temperature of 500 °C with feeding rate of 8 kg/h under 1 L/min of nitrogen gas flow rate. The average moisture content of bio-oil was varied between 30 and 40 % and the bio-oil produced at 500 °C provided the maximum HHV of 27.38 MJ/kg, respectively. The Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) spectra shows bio-oil contains high phenolic compounds. This paper explains the fast pyrolysis of empty fruit bunch using auger reactor to enhance the bio-oil yield and characteristics.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 032021 |
| Journal | IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering |
| Volume | 736 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 4 Mar 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science
- General Engineering
