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Catalytic pyrolysis of washed empty fruit bunch (EFB) by using cobalt oxide doped onto silica-alumina catalyst

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Main Author: Randy, Ramli
Other Authors: Alina Rahayu Mohamed
Format: Learning Object
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis 2011
Subjects:
Biomass
Empty fruit bunch (EFB)
Bio-oil production
Fossil fuels
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/16136
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spelling my.unimap-161362011-11-22T01:52:55Z Catalytic pyrolysis of washed empty fruit bunch (EFB) by using cobalt oxide doped onto silica-alumina catalyst Randy, Ramli Alina Rahayu Mohamed Biomass Empty fruit bunch (EFB) Bio-oil production Fossil fuels Access is limited to UniMAP community. The problem with the utilization of fossil fuels such as expensive, source depletion and not being environmental friendly lead to the utilization of biomass as one of the renewable and environmental friendly energy source. Biomass such as solid empty fruit bunch (EFB) can be converted into bio-oil through thermochemical process such as pyrolysis. In this project, cobalt oxide doped onto silica-alumina catalyst has been used and prepared by wet impregnation technique. The effect of pyrolysis temperature, holding time and type of reaction to the bio-oil production were investigated by using the Design Expert® software and the correlation between all factors to the bio-oil production was 66.9%. Based on the ANOVA analysis, the interaction between pyrolysis temperature and holding time, as well as type of reaction are the significant terms to the bio-oil production. For the morphological test, the x-ray diffraction (XRD) test showed that cobalt oxide doped onto silica-alumina catalyst possesses a certain degree of crystallinity with some amorphous characteristics. On the other hand, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) test showed that the cobalt/silica-alumina catalyst has indefinite shape and size. The thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) test on the biomass sample has shown that the active pyrolytic zone is in the range of 200 °C – 500 °C whereas the Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) test on the bio-oil showed that it contain water, polymeric hydroxyl compounds, alkenes, carboxylic acids, ketones and aldehydes. 2011-11-22T01:52:55Z 2011-11-22T01:52:55Z 2011-05 Learning Object http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16136 en Universiti Malaysia Perlis School of Bioprocess Engineering
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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topic Biomass
Empty fruit bunch (EFB)
Bio-oil production
Fossil fuels
spellingShingle Biomass
Empty fruit bunch (EFB)
Bio-oil production
Fossil fuels
Randy, Ramli
Catalytic pyrolysis of washed empty fruit bunch (EFB) by using cobalt oxide doped onto silica-alumina catalyst
description Access is limited to UniMAP community.
author2 Alina Rahayu Mohamed
author_facet Alina Rahayu Mohamed
Randy, Ramli
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author Randy, Ramli
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title Catalytic pyrolysis of washed empty fruit bunch (EFB) by using cobalt oxide doped onto silica-alumina catalyst
title_short Catalytic pyrolysis of washed empty fruit bunch (EFB) by using cobalt oxide doped onto silica-alumina catalyst
title_full Catalytic pyrolysis of washed empty fruit bunch (EFB) by using cobalt oxide doped onto silica-alumina catalyst
title_fullStr Catalytic pyrolysis of washed empty fruit bunch (EFB) by using cobalt oxide doped onto silica-alumina catalyst
title_full_unstemmed Catalytic pyrolysis of washed empty fruit bunch (EFB) by using cobalt oxide doped onto silica-alumina catalyst
title_sort catalytic pyrolysis of washed empty fruit bunch (efb) by using cobalt oxide doped onto silica-alumina catalyst
publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis
publishDate 2011
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/16136
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