Palm Shells Biomass Power Plants

Background

Palm kernel shells are remnants of the palm oil refining process and have long been abandoned. Until a cement plant in Malaysia uses palm shells as biofuel, it mixes with coal to produce heat. While in recent years, bulks of palm kernel shells are processed and sold as biomass fuel for boilers, especially for steam boilers in palm oil mills. We know palm oil mills need steam boiler to run turbines for electricity production. Today, many European countries, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy and other places began to try to put palm shell mixed coal fuel together to provide energy to alleviate the rising costs of fuel and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Advantages ＆ Palm Shells Power plants

Moisture content in kernel shells is low compared to other biomass residues with different sources suggesting values between 11% and 13%. Palm kernel shells contain residues of Palm Oil, which accounts for its slightly higher heating value than average lignocellulosic biomass. Compared to other residues from the industry, it is a good quality biomass fuel with uniform size distribution, easy handling, easy crushing, and limited biological activity due to low moisture content.

Palm shells can burned in a combustor or furnace to generate hot gas, which is fed into a boiler to generate steam, which is expanded through a steam turbine or steam engine to produce mechanical or electrical energy. ZBG biomass boiler for power plants can not only burn palm shells, but also burn sunflower seeds shell, shaped biomass fuel, sugarcane bagasse, rice husk and rice straw, coconut shell, sawdust and so on.

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