Utilization Of Factory Waste Oil Palm As A Power Plant

Palm oil is one of the largest commodity in several areas in Indonesia on the Islands Mainly. Borneo and Sumatra. This requires the building of palm oil mills in the area adjacent to the palm oil plantations. The existence of these factories, causing a large number of waste resulting from production processes that run in the factories.

Palm oil mill production activity (MCC) produce very large volumes of waste. Waste generated can be either solid or liquid. The waste has a heat value is quite high. Its utilization will produce fuel that can be used either one for stirring up electric.
For an MCC with a capacity of 100 thousand tons of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) per year will be produced about 6 thousand tons of shells, 12 thousand tons of fiber and 23 thousand tons of empty fruit bunches (TBK). The axons of the shell can be worn straight and so out of the production process as fuel, are drying should experience TBK without direct sunlight. With the generation efficiency of about 25%, can be obtained the electric energy of 7.2 – 8.4 h (e) GW to cockle, 9.2 – 15, 9GW (e) h for fibers, and 30 GW (e) h for TBK. Through a typical analysis for digester anaerobic biogas from waste can be obtained at the liquid. With the same assumption, the capacity and the electricity that can be raised a minimum of 1.38 GW (e) h. For this condition for the production of electricity is of 1.4 – 1.6 GW (e) h. waste Handling well will be capable of tapping the potential of environmental pollution and generate electricity for the MCC'S operational needs at the same time in the surrounding area.

In General, the waste of the MCC is grouped into solid waste and liquid waste (Palm Oil Mill Effluent/POME). Typically the liquid waste containing organic materials at high levels so that potentially contaminate the environment because it required the degradation of organic matter. The mechanism of control of water consumption in the whole process at the factory will determine the water consumption and the volume of waste water produced by the MCC. For each ton of TBS are processed in MCC takes between 1-2 tons of water (Tobing, 1997). Normal water supply is taken from the environment, such as a river. Liquid waste produced about 550 kg per ton of FFB processed, with a specific gravity between 1.05 to 1.1 g/cm3 (Kartiman, 2008). Mangoensoekarjo and Semangun (2005) mentions that the liquid waste reaches 40% – 70% of FFB processed. The range of the volume depends also on the system of sewage treatment plant. One of MCC'S liquid waste with the potential impact of environmental pollution is sludge (sludge) that comes from the process of clarification and are called primary with mud. Sludge which has undergone the process of sedimentation is called secondary sludge.

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Solid waste the MCC are grouped into two, namely the waste that comes from processing and that comes from the base of the liquid waste processing. Solid waste originating from the processing in the form of empty fruit bunches (TBK = empty fruit bunch) is wasted from penebah after bunches of fruit, boiled shells or shell (palm shell), and the fibers or fiber (fiber). While the solid waste originating from the processing of liquid waste in the form of an active mud carried away by the results of wastewater treatment.

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Within the factory oil palm (MCC) electricity is about 14 – 16 kWh/ton of TBS. For purposes of explanation and other time factory is not or has not started processing can be mounted as a diesel power plant. Diesel is also commonly installed as backup generators. Energy generation is one of the benefits that can be obtained from the processing of waste of the MCC. The utilization of this energy in the form of potentially great given the waste that still has a fairly high heat value.

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Ditulis Unknown — Tuesday, March 21, 2017 — Add Comment — Biofuel, Biogas, Pome energy, Renewable Energy