Pretreatment of oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) by N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide (NMMO) for biogas production: Structural changes and digestion improvement
Journal article, 2013

Pretreatment of OPEFB (oil palm empty fruit bunch) by NMMO (N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide) on its subsequent digestions was investigated. The pretreatments were carried out at 90 and 120 degrees C for 1, 3, and 5 h in three different modes of dissolution (by 85% NMMO solution), ballooning (79% NMMO solution), and swelling (73% NMMO solution). The total solid recovery after the pretreatment was 89-94%. The pretreatment process did not have a major impact on the composition of OPEFB, other than a reduction of ash from 5.4% up to 1.3%. The best improvement in biogas production was achieved by a dissolution mode pretreatment of OPEFB, using conditions of 85% NMMO, 3 h, and 120 degrees C. It resulted in 0.408 Nm(3)/kg VS methane yield and 0.032 Nm(3) CH4/kg VS/day initial methane production rate, which correspond in improving by 48% and 167% compared to the untreated OPEFB, respectively.

lyocell

hydrolysis

cellulose

optimization

Oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB)

ethanol

spruce

acid

yield

N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide (NMMO)

Biogas

Pretreatment

Author

F. A. Purwandari

Gadjah Mada University

A. P. Sanjaya

Gadjah Mada University

Ria Millati

Gadjah Mada University

M. N. Cahyanto

Gadjah Mada University

I. S. Horvath

University of Borås

Claes Niklasson

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering

Mohammad Taherzadeh Esfahani

University of Borås

Bioresource Technology

0960-8524 (ISSN) 1873-2976 (eISSN)

Vol. 128 461-466

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Industrial Biotechnology

Bioenergy

Areas of Advance

Energy

DOI

10.1016/j.biortech.2012.10.088

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