Processing Empty Palm Oil for New Green Energy

Abstract

Palm oil industry waste in Indonesia is increasing due to the increasing area of ??oil palm plantations and increasing palm oil production in Indonesia. In 2017 the area of ??oil palm plantations amounted to 16 million hectares and the production of palm oil produced amounted to 38.17 million tons. Palm oil industry solid waste in the form of Processing Empty Palm Oil (PEPO) has a considerable amount. The number of processing empty palm oil is around 23% of the total fresh fruit bunches. One of the utilization of processing empty palm oil (PEPO) by making it an environmentally friendly fuel is Bio-Pellet. The research methods used in this study consisted of sorting raw materials, drying, cutting or counting, grinding or reducing the size or grinding, dust separation and sifting, pellet making, cooling, packing, pellet standard testing. The results showed that the quality of Bio-Pellet with 50% amylium concentration with 20 mess PEPO with the composition of 60 grams of PEPO and 40 ml of 50% amylium obtained water content is 8.75%, ash content 8.73%, fly matter content 75.46%, heating value 4151.67 cal / g, density 1.5 g / cm3 and carbon content bound 20.60%. After being compared with Indonesian National Standard (SNI), some of the mixtures did not meet SNI due to several factors, namely, adhesive concentration, type of adhesive, level of material smoothness, mixture composition between material and adhesive.