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Environmental sustainability assessment of palm lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods

Malaysia produces great quantities of waste lignocellulosic biomass every year from oil palm cultivation. Palm wastes are not currently utilised in a very productive manner because the relatively low price of petroleum-derived fuel has prevented biomass-derived fuel from gaining market share. It is...

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Main Authors: Abdul Rahman, A. Z., Saidina Amin, N. A.
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Language:English
Published: Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC 2019
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spelling my.utm.905682021-04-29T23:28:03Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/90568/ Environmental sustainability assessment of palm lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods Abdul Rahman, A. Z. Saidina Amin, N. A. TP Chemical technology Malaysia produces great quantities of waste lignocellulosic biomass every year from oil palm cultivation. Palm wastes are not currently utilised in a very productive manner because the relatively low price of petroleum-derived fuel has prevented biomass-derived fuel from gaining market share. It is envisaged that taking into account environmental sustainability in addition to cost in the evaluation of the viability of a fuel will make biomass-derived fuels more feasible for adoption compared to the conventional fossil fuels. The environmental sustainability metric Sustainable Process Index (SPI) is applied to several competing lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods, namely ozonolysis, ionic liquid treatment, and ammonia fibre expansion (AFEX). These methods are chosen because of the relatively novel processes, which are not commonly used at industrial scale. Existing studies have shown that these processes present possible improvement over conventional methods. Using the SPI methodology, it is determined that the total specific service area, atot, for AFEX is the lowest, the most environmentally sustainable process for the pretreatment of palm lignocellulosic biomass, followed by ozonolysis and then ionic liquid treatment. Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/90568/1/NorAishahSaidinaAmin2019_EnvironmentalSustainabilityAssessment.pdf Abdul Rahman, A. Z. and Saidina Amin, N. A. (2019) Environmental sustainability assessment of palm lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods. Chemical Engineering Transactions, 72 . pp. 13-18. ISSN 2283-9216 http://dx.doi.org/10.3303/CET1972003 DOI: 10.3303/CET1972003
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Abdul Rahman, A. Z.
Saidina Amin, N. A.
Environmental sustainability assessment of palm lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods
description Malaysia produces great quantities of waste lignocellulosic biomass every year from oil palm cultivation. Palm wastes are not currently utilised in a very productive manner because the relatively low price of petroleum-derived fuel has prevented biomass-derived fuel from gaining market share. It is envisaged that taking into account environmental sustainability in addition to cost in the evaluation of the viability of a fuel will make biomass-derived fuels more feasible for adoption compared to the conventional fossil fuels. The environmental sustainability metric Sustainable Process Index (SPI) is applied to several competing lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods, namely ozonolysis, ionic liquid treatment, and ammonia fibre expansion (AFEX). These methods are chosen because of the relatively novel processes, which are not commonly used at industrial scale. Existing studies have shown that these processes present possible improvement over conventional methods. Using the SPI methodology, it is determined that the total specific service area, atot, for AFEX is the lowest, the most environmentally sustainable process for the pretreatment of palm lignocellulosic biomass, followed by ozonolysis and then ionic liquid treatment.
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author Abdul Rahman, A. Z.
Saidina Amin, N. A.
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title Environmental sustainability assessment of palm lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods
title_short Environmental sustainability assessment of palm lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods
title_full Environmental sustainability assessment of palm lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods
title_fullStr Environmental sustainability assessment of palm lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods
title_full_unstemmed Environmental sustainability assessment of palm lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods
title_sort environmental sustainability assessment of palm lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods
publisher Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC
publishDate 2019
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/90568/1/NorAishahSaidinaAmin2019_EnvironmentalSustainabilityAssessment.pdf
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