DocumentCode
2093750
Title
Utilization of felled oil palm trunk: Trunk sections storage on oil palm sap production
Author
Morad, Noor Azian ; Ibrahim, Wan Asma ; Muda, Nur Syuhana ; Shirai, Yoshihito ; Aziz, Mustafa Kamal Abdul ; Lam, Hon Loong
Author_Institution
Center of Lipids Engineering and Applied Research (CLEAR), Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
fYear
2015
fDate
May 31 2015-June 3 2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
5
Abstract
Oil palm trunk (OPT) is one of the biomass produce during replanting of palm tree and this is generated every twenty five years in a given plantation. The core of the OPT when mechanically squeezed produce sap, which can be used to produce bio-ethanol. In this study, four OPT was used and each OPT was chopped into four sections which were upper, middle 1, middle 2 and bottom. The sections were stored for 1, 15, 30 and 45 days before being mechanically pretreated to produce palm sap. The mass balance during the production was recorded which resulted in the decrease of the sap volume during trunk storage time from 304.98L to 85.74L.
Keywords
Biomass; Ethanol; Moisture; Optimized production technology; Sugar; Vegetation; oil palm trunk; palm sap; storage;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Control Conference (ASCC), 2015 10th Asian
Conference_Location
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ASCC.2015.7244841
Filename
7244841
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