The Effect of Air Flow Rate on the Production of Active Charcoal from Palm Oil Shells with Partial Oxidation Method

Firman, Sitti Sahraeni

2021

Abstract

Palm kernel shell is one of the palm oil processing wastes which is quite large, reaching 6.5% of 1 ton of palm oil. This shell can be used as an ingredient for making activated charcoal. Activated charcoal is widely used as an adsorbent, gas purification, water purification and so on. The palm kernel shell (PKS) is the hardest part of the components found in oil palm. Oil palm shell contains 26.6% cellulose and 27.7% hemicellulose which are good for making activated charcoal. This study aims to determine the effect of air flow rate on activated charcoal according to SNI No. 06-3730-1995. Carbonization and activation are carried out using pyrolysis with the principle of partial oxidation. The pyrolysis process was carried out at air flow rates of 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 L/ min for 5 hours. The best results were shown at an air flow rate of 35 L / min with a product yield of 20%, water content of 5.82%, ash content of 7.51%, volatile matter content of 8,73%, fixed carbon 77,94%, and absorption. iodine of 750,1403 mg / g. These results have met the SNI 06-3703-1995 standards.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Firman. and Sahraeni S. (2021). The Effect of Air Flow Rate on the Production of Active Charcoal from Palm Oil Shells with Partial Oxidation Method. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Engineering Science - Volume 1: iCAST-ES, ISBN 978-989-758-615-6, pages 1138-1141. DOI: 10.5220/0010960900003260

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icast-es21,
author={Firman and Sitti Sahraeni},
title={The Effect of Air Flow Rate on the Production of Active Charcoal from Palm Oil Shells with Partial Oxidation Method},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Engineering Science - Volume 1: iCAST-ES,},
year={2021},
pages={1138-1141},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010960900003260},
isbn={978-989-758-615-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Engineering Science - Volume 1: iCAST-ES,
TI - The Effect of Air Flow Rate on the Production of Active Charcoal from Palm Oil Shells with Partial Oxidation Method
SN - 978-989-758-615-6
AU - Firman.
AU - Sahraeni S.
PY - 2021
SP - 1138
EP - 1141
DO - 10.5220/0010960900003260