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Nov 14

CREG EFB-Diesel (Silver Medal – INATEX 2008)

By Mailin1 Comment

ABSTRACT

An innovative process offers an environmental friendly technology for the production of alternative energy from a sustainable renewable resource. In the new process, EFB-Diesel is innovatively produced from biomass via a two-step reaction of pretreatment and pyrolysis. The reaction produced highly valuable oil (EFB-Diesel), gaseous and char. The conversion and the yield of EFB-Diesel were 58 wt% and 22 wt%, respectively. The innovative process is feasible for commercialization in the gas, fuel, and petrochemical industries.

Keywords: Renewable, wastes, fuel, energy

Product

Component

Application

Liquid

Hydrocarbons, Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (Biodiesel)

Transportation fuel, petrochemical industries and for power plants

Gas

Bio-ethane

Fuel cells applications

Char

-

Activated carbon

PROBLEM

Environmental concerns and petroleum depletion lure the search for a new alternative fuel. One such solution is to convert renewable agricultural biomass to energy source. Being the world’s largest producer of palm oil, Malaysia generates about 40 million tons of empty fruit bunches (EFB) annually.

Although EFB is utilized for power generation, the heating value of EFB is still small. Even pyrolysis of EFB produces bio-oil that contains mixtures of chemical components that do not meet the fuel specifications.

OUR SOLUTION

An innovative process was developed for the conversion of empty palm fruit bunch to fuel (EFB-Diesel). The invention offers promising solution for the recent controversial issue of biodiesel production from food sources. The quality of EFB-Diesel is comparable to the conventional bio-diesel.

ADVANTAGES OF INVENTION

ü New technology for conversion of Empty Palm Fruit Bunch (EPFB) into Biodiesel

ü Environmental friendly alternative energy

ü Economically viable and sustainable method

ü Utilization of renewable resources

ü EFB-Diesel for heating oil or blended with diesel

PRODUCT FEATURES

· Converts solid biomass waste into renewable fuel

· Non-food source for biodiesel

· Waste to Wealth (W2W)

· High quality products

POTENTIAL MARKET

§ Solid Waste Management Industries

§ Agriculture Industries

§ Industrial Power Plants (eg. Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Malakoff, YTL)

§ Automotive Industries

PRODUCT PROPERTIES

Properties

EFB-Diesel

Typical Bio-Oil

Petroleum

Diesel

pH

3.8

3

7

Water Content (wt%)

17

31.5

131 ppm

Ash

1.02

5.36

-

Moisture (%)

0

6.7

-

Density (kg/L) a

0.73

1.17

0.85

Kinematic Viscosity, (Cst)b

3.63

17

1.2-4.1

High heating value (MJ/kg)c

27

20.6

42.79

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION KINDLY CONTACT:
Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin
Chemical Reaction Engineering Group (CREG),
Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Enginering,                                                                           Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Skudai, Johor.                                                                                     Tel: +607- 553 5502; +607- 553 6044                                                                                                        Fax: +607- 558 1463;  Email: noraishah@fkkksa.utm.my                                                      www.fkkksa.utm.my/creg, www.cregutm.com

Nov 14

Ph.D STUDENT

By Maryam1 Comment

Name: Maryam Khoshtinat Nikoo
Origin: Tehran- Iran
Status: Married
Secondary education: year: Mathematics, Tehran, 1992

First Degree, year: Chemical engineering- food industries, Tehran, 1996
Masters degree, year: Chemical engineering- process design of petroleum industries, Tehran, 2003
Ph.D degree, year: ongoing
Current project: Syngas and oxygenates generation via OCM reaction by a catalytic plasma reactor

E-mail: m_k_nikoo@yahoo.com

Papers and Conferences

1- Reactor type selection and catalyst used for hydrogen production via Methanol steam reforming (SRM) for fuel cells was presented in 14th national congress of chemistry and chemical engineering (2003- Teacher Training University)

2- Deactivation kinetic modeling of commercial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst in methanol steam reforming process was presented in 9th national congress of chemical engineering (Iran university of Science and Technology- 2004)

3- Deactivation kinetics of steam methanol reforming for hydrogen production was accepted in congress of Fuel Cells Science and Technology (October 2004)-Munich- Germany.

4- Derivation of kinetic deactivation model for SRM on Cu/Zn/Al2O3 was presented in 10th national congress of chemical engineering ( University of Zahedan-2005)

5- Environmental Effects Production Resources, Reduction and Removal Approaches of CO2 was presented in 11th national congress of chemical engineering (Tarbiat Modaress University- 2007)

6- Reduction and Removal Methods of Mercury in cell-Mercury chlorine-Alkali plants, Accepted in (second national conference on safety engineering and HSE management, University of Sharif-2008)

7- Waste of mercury, reduction methods, monitoring job environment and biological evaluation of CA plants in BIPC and in the world(1st national petrochemical conference- Tehran 2008).

BOOKS

1- Oil well testing, Navid Naderpour., Maryam Khoshtinat Nikoo, 2008 PUBLISHED BY: SBS PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS PVT. LTD. ISBN: 978-81-89741-64-8. 2/9, GROUND FL., ANSARI ROAD, DARYA GANJ, NEW DELHI 110002, INDIA

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