Evaluation of design parameters for air cyclone system in palm oil mill / Abrar Haron

• Main Author: Haron, Abrar
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/73946/1/73946.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/73946/

There are many types of function or task that can be perform by an air cyclone system, but the one that we are trying to evaluate and improve is the one that operates in the palm oil mill where its function is to separate the fibre from the fibrenut mixture. In the first chapter, we will brief you on how the system in palm oil mill works where mainly is to extract oil from the palm oil fruits. There are two procedure of extracting the oil, one is getting the oil from fibre and the second one is from the nut itself. The air cyclone system is used at the last part of the first procedure where the efficiency of it is measured by the amount of fibre collected rather then sucking the nut together with the fibre in it. In the next chapter, three major components that are really the heart of the system will be specify all of its ability. From here we will introduce you the depericarper column, the air cyclone and the centrifugal fan. You will understand on how do these component effects on the system if its design is being tempered. The air cyclone and the centrifugal fan has its own standard where to change or redesign the parameter of these component, all the factors tabulated have to be considered and to pick the right standard is mostly essential. The depericarper column is custom made. Engineers will only be considering on putting the right parameter of the area of the column just to get the right effect on the separating speed. Chapter 4 will be considering on the analysis for the selection of what we have choose or design. Referring to standard given, we will determine the most efficient design and we will try to integrate all three components so that the design is suitable and stable to be used. In Chapter 5, we are discussing on the result that we has achieved during the analysis.