Simulation study of gasification of empty fruit bunch (EFB) for electricity generation using Superpro designer

Shariffudin, Muhammad Syazwan and Abdul Jalal, Nurfatin Azma and Mel, Maizirwan and Sulaiman, Sarina and Ihsan, Sany Izan and Wae-Hayee, Makatar (2022) Simulation study of gasification of empty fruit bunch (EFB) for electricity generation using Superpro designer. Biological and Natural Resources Engineering Journal, 6 (2). pp. 24-36. E-ISSN 2637-0719

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Abstract

Energy generation using non- renewable sources has always been an issue to the environment. To sustain the environment, gasification process using biomass as carbonaceous fuel is urged to reduce the dependency on coal or fossil fuel as the feed to generate energy. This project focused on identifying the best condition for running a gasification process using SuperPro Designer v9.5 software. The software was used to design the power plant by having the required unit operations such as gasification, cyclone separator, cooling, absorption, gas compression and gas expansion in their library. The unit operations were then arranged to build the plant and optimized by using Minitab v14 software to find out the best condition among the selected factors which are the fuel, steam, and oxidant streams into the gasifier for producing high yield of electrical energy. The result demonstrated that the biomass feed stream of two metric tons per hour of empty fruit bunch (EFB), one metric ton per hour of steam feed and zero-point five metric ton of air were enough to generate about 8246 kWh of electricity. Overall, all runs showed a good and approximately equal performance which indicate that the SuperPro designer simulation is reliable for analyzing gasification performance.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Gasification design plant, EFB Palm oil, Gasifier optimization
Subjects:	T Technology > TP Chemical technology > TP315 Fuel
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Engineering Kulliyyah of Engineering > Department of Mechanical Engineering
Depositing User:	Dr Sany I Ihsan
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2023 09:06
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2023 15:50
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/105080

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