Trial production of fuel pellet from Acacia mangium bark waste biomass

1st International Conference on Tropical Studies and Its Application

Amirta, R.^1 ; Anwar, T.^1 ; Sudrajat^2 ; Yuliansyah^1 ; Suwinarti, W.^1

Faculty of Forestry, Mulawarman University, Jl. Ki Hajar Dewantara, East Kalimantan, Samarinda, Indonesia^1

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Mulawarman University, Jl. Barong Tongkok, East Kalimantan, Samarinda, Indonesia^2

关键词: Acacia mangium;    Combustion property;    Export markets;    International standards;    Optimum composition;    Pellet production;    Press machines;    Rotating rollers;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/144/1/012040/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/144/1/012040

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Fuel pellet is one of the innovation products that can be produced from various sources of biomass such as agricultural residues, forestry and also wood industries including wood bark. Herein this paper, the potential fuel pellet production using Acacia mangium bark that abundant wasted from chip mill industry was studied. Fuel pellet was produced using a modified animal feed pellet press machine equipped with rotating roller-cylinders. The international standards quality of fuel pellet such as ONORM (Austria), SS (Sweden), DIN (Germany), EN (European) and ITEBE (Italy) were used to evaluate the optimum composition of feedstock and additive used. Theresults showed the quality offuel pellet produced were good compared to commercial sawdust pellet. Mixed of Acacia bark (dust) with 10% of tapioca and 20% of glycerol (w/w) was increased the stable form of pellet and the highest heating value to reached 4,383 Kcal/kg (calorific value). Blending of Acacia bark with tapioca and glycerol was positively improved its physical, chemical and combustion properties to met the international standards requirement for export market. Based on this finding, production of fuel pellet from Acacia bark waste biomass was promising to be developed as an alternative substitution of fossil energy in the future.