PRELIMINARY STUDY OF UTILIZATION OF WASTE SLUDGE CPO (CRUDE PALM OIL) AS RAW MATERIAL RDF (REFUSED DERIVED FUEL)

• Main Author: ARUMSARI FITRIANY (NIM 15305072); Pembimbing: Dr. Sukandar, S.Si, M.T., INNA
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/14235
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Indonesia is a country with the growth of the largest palm oil industry, even going to be a major world producer in 2010, which will have the untapped resources of more than 50 million tons per year. Therefore, Indonesia has huge potential in using biomass byproducts from the remaining sludge in the form of palm oil as a source of energy in the form of charcoal briquettes. Gardens and palm oil mills produce solid and liquid wastes in large numbers that have not been used optimally. Production growth of CPO (Crude Palm Oil) at 5-6% per year will also mean increasing the availability of sludge byproduct from the remaining mills. The growth of oil palm plantation acreage in Indonesia will continue to increase thereby increasing source of sludge byproduct from the remaining mills. This means the raw material for making bio-fuels will be available in larger quantities. From the production of palm oil production in 2004 can be estimated POME (Palm Oil Mill Effluent) counted 32.257-37.633 million tons. This amount is very gorgeous and huge potential as a source of renewable energy. Therefore, Indonesia has great potential to utilize by products from the oil palm as a source of renewable energy. The types of sludge that can be utilized ie biosludge, spent bleaching earth, first aid cake, glycerin, and Scum cake. In this study the variation of mixing will be done to achieve optimum heating value.