Utilization of Empty Fruit Bunch Fiber of Palm Oil Industry for Bio-Hydrogen Production
| Main Authors: | Sari, Eka; Chemical Engineering Department Engineering Faculty, Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University, Banten, Indonesia,, Effendy, Mohammad; Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Technology Institute of Adhi Tama Surabaya, Surabaya Indonesia, Kanani, Nufus; Chemical Engineering Department Engineering Faculty, Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University, Banten, Indonesia,, Wardalia, -; Chemical Engineering Department Engineering Faculty, Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University, Banten, Indonesia,, Rusdi, -; Chemical Engineering Department Engineering Faculty, Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University, Banten, Indonesia, |
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| Format: | Article info application/pdf eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology
, 2018
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| Online Access: |
http://insightsociety.org/ojaseit/index.php/ijaseit/article/view/3985 http://insightsociety.org/ojaseit/index.php/ijaseit/article/view/3985/pdf_736 |
Daftar Isi:
- Empty fruit bunch fiber (EFBf) is a type of biomass waste generated by the palm oil industry, which accounts for approximately 22-23% of the total fresh fruit produced to make CPO. Currently, the total waste of EFBf in Indonesia stands at about 5 million tons per year. It is necessary, therefore, to find solutions for utilizing this abundance. One alternative is to produce bio-hydrogen from the EFBf bio-mass waste. The early stage of the process was to convert EFBF biomass waste into bio-ethanol, which could then be subjected to high temperatures in a ‘cracking’ process to produce bio-hydrogen. The characteristics of the bio-ethanol were analysed, and it was used as Bio-ethanol Reformer, a raw material in the cracking process. The results showed that a pre-treatment process using sodium hydroxide at a concentration of 6% for 60 minutes resulted in an 86.69% elimination of lignin. Pre-treated EBFf bio-mass waste hydrolysed using sulphuric acid at a concentration of 6% for 60 minutes, produced 0.6054% glucose. The fermentation process showed 6.58% bio-ethanol. Based on the characteristics of the bio-ethanol produced in this experiment, a simulation calculation for the production of bio-hydrogen was then performed using the cracking process of bio-ethanol with specified process conditions. The simulation calculations showed that the yield of bio-hydrogen in the cracking process reached 21.4%.