Palm EFB Pellets: From Waste to Wealth
How is Palm EFB Generated?
Palm EFB is generated from the pretreatment system of a Crude Palm Oil Mill. When the Palm Full Fruit Bunch arrives at CPO mill, it’ll be loaded into small containers for steaming process. After being steamed, the fruits will be very easy to be separated from the bunch, while the steamed bunches are fed into a Rotary Separator. The fruits will be collected and go into the Oil Press Machines, while the Palm Empty Fruit Bunch will be discharged out of workshop as waste material..jpg)
Palm Full Fruit Bunch(FFB)
Fruit Bunch Loading into Palm Oil Mill
Fruit Bunch Steaming Process
Steamed Fruit Bunch
Fruit Bunch Loaded Into Separator
EFB & Fruit Separator
Palm Fruits Pressed By Oil Expeller
Waste Material - Palm Empty Fruit Bunch
With SIMEC technology and equipment, palm Empty Fruit Bunch can be processed into profitable Bio Fuel Pellets. Please click photo of Palm EFB Pellet Mills for more information.
Palm EFB Pellets
Palm EFB pellets have good calorific value. You can find the test report from SGS as follow.
SGS Test Report of Palm EFB Pellets
| ANALYSIS REPORT | ||
| One(1) sample said to be PALM EFB PELLET, contained in a polythene bag. | ||
| On analysis of the sample, the following result was obtained :- | ||
| TEST PARAMETERS | TEST METHODS | RESULTS |
| Total Moisture, (ARB) % | NTA 8200-BPM 4-02 | 8.9 (Eight decimal nine) |
| Ash, (DB) % | NTA 8200-BPM 4-01 | 5.4 (Five decimal four) |
| Volatile Matter, (DB) % | NTA 8200-BPM 4-04 | 74.5 (Seven four decimal five) |
| Fixed Carbon, (DB) % | BY CALCULATION | 20.1 (Two zero decimal one) |
| Total Sulphur, (DB) % | GRAVIMETRIC | 0.14 (Zero decimal one-four) |
| Chlorine, (DB) % | TITRIMETRIC | 0.37 (Zero decimal three-seven) |
| Net Calorific Value, (DB) kcal/kg | BOMB CALORIMETER | 4218 (Four two one eight) |
| Nitrogen, N(DB) % | KJEDAHL | 0.74 (Zero decimal seven-four) |
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Note : 1)DB(Dried Basis) 2)ARB(As Received Basis) 3)NTA-BPM(Netherlands Technical Agreement-Best Practice Method) |
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The Advantages of Palm EFB Pellets
- EFB pellet with Low Moisture in Nature: The moisture for EFB pellet is about 8-12% whereby compare to the Shredded EFB fiber the moisture always hit between 50-60%. This also imply that the transport cost save substantially because a big portion of moisture is eliminated.
- High Heating Energy and Efficiency: Dry EFB pellet also means the burning condition is more effective and user is able to retrieve better efficiency and predictable result. The pellet will thoroughly combustion in the boiler chamber and only 5% of substance left over as ash content.
- EFB pellet Easy Handling and Storage: The pellets will be packed in a jumbo bag with weight around 900-1000kg per bag. In a standard 20ft container, we are able to pack 20 jumbo bags, which mean a 20 feet container we are able to ship around 20MT of EFB pellets.
- Pellet Suitable for most of the boilers grating systems: The pellet normally comes in 8mm diameter and length about 20-30mm. This is also a suitable dimension for most of the boiler input grate.
- EFB pellet Generate Low to No smoke during the Combustion: Air pollution is one of the hot topics that always draw many users’ attention. One of the significant advantages for pellet is that it will not generate smoke or fume during the combustion process, which means very minimum particulate being discharge to the air.
- Easy Control and Broad application: Pellet size is small in dimension and easy for repack if house-hold application is needed. Some of the pellet is repacked into convenient bag size in order selling to end user for BBQ burning substance.