Pretreatment of empty palm fruit bunch for production of chemicals via catalytic pyrolysis

Mailin Misson; Roslindawati Haron; Mohd Fadhzir Ahmad Kamaroddin; Nor Aishah Saidina Amin

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2008.12.060

Pretreatment of empty palm fruit bunch for production of chemicals via catalytic pyrolysis

Mailin Misson
, Roslindawati Haron
, Mohd Fadhzir Ahmad Kamaroddin
, Nor Aishah Saidina Amin^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The effect of chemical pretreatments using NaOH, H₂O₂, and Ca(OH)₂ on Empty Palm Fruit Bunches (EPFB) to degrade EPFB lignin before pyrolyis was investigated. Spectrophotometer analysis proved consecutive addition of NaOH and H₂O₂ decomposed almost 100% of EPFB lignin compared to 44% for the Ca(OH)₂, H₂O₂ system while NaOH and Ca(OH)₂ used exclusively could not alter lignin much. Next, the pretreated EPFB was catalytically pyrolyzed. Experimental results indicated the phenolic yields over Al-MCM-41 and HZSM-5 catalysts were 90 wt% and 80 wt%, respectively compared to 67 wt% yield for the untreated sample under the same set of conditions. Meanwhile, the experiments with HY zeolite yielded 70 wt% phenols.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2867-2873
Number of pages	7
Journal	Bioresource Technology
Volume	100
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2008.12.060
State	Published - Jun 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Catalytic pyrolysis
Chemical pretreatment
Empty palm fruit bunch
Lignin degradation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Bioengineering
Environmental Engineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Waste Management and Disposal

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Pretreatment of empty palm fruit bunch for production of chemicals via catalytic pyrolysis

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