Latest EFB Briquette

DST has committed in renewable energy sector at Malaysia, we has set our target to provide more

choices for biomass energy resources to local and worldwide market. We have heavily involved in supplying of EFB pellet, saw dust pellet and biomass palm briquette. On the other hand, we do study with the customer need in order to supply more choices of biomass products for the market. 25mm diameter of EFB briquette is one of our latest biomass energy resources.

Revolution of EFB Briquette

Briquette referring to larger diameter biomass commodity whereby pellet is always refer to small size such as below 10mm diameter.

Large EFB Palm Briquette.

The original palm briquette is manufacturing into 70-80mm diameter. Through practical application, we notice many of the briquette being wasted as incomplete combustion happened in the biomass chamber.

Hollow Type EFB Palm Briquette.

The dense inner part is the area always is hard in combustion because of insufficient air flow. In order to improve the situation, pressed machine has been re-design whereby the briquette comes with an hollow ID. The hollow type of EFB briquette does help the improve of combustion.

Smaller size EFB palm briquette.

25mm diameter is one of the smaller size briquette. EFB palm fibre length has been studied and calculated before the 25mm diameter being determined. The 25mm EFB palm briquette is one of the optimum briquetting process which able to maintain smoother briquetting process.

Why 25mm EFB Briquette?

The 25mm EFB briquette is developed with a few objectives:

Suitable to most biomass input grating system.

The smaller of briquette is definitely more forgiving while coming to biomass boiler input grate system. Most of the industrial biomass boiler is able adapting to this new size.

Optimum in briquetting process.

25mm is the balance between briquette manufacturer and user. The dry EFB fibre can pressed into EFB briquette with only shredded process.

Energy retention in combustion process.

The briquette is able to retain heat during the combustion process while also ensure complete combustion, waste of incomplete briquette is minimize.

Who needs 25mm EFB Briquette?

EFB briquette or palm briquette is always a good energy source for biomass power plant. The existing biomass plant who using larger briquette can easily converted to 25mm diameter EFB briquette without any changing in process.

Biomass boiler who currently using palm kernel shell, shredded EFB fibre or pellet are suitable for this EFB briquette.

We welcome any inquiry about this 25mm diameter EFB briquette.

January 18, 2013

Advantages of EFB Pellet

Scientis and engineers have never stop looking for new substitution energy source, especially explore the possibility of renewable energy. Biomass is one of the renewable energy which has been widely promote and EFB pellet is one of the new commodity for biomass.

Not many people in the market aware about EFB pellet however they do aware of saw dust pellet or wood pellet which originate from discarded saw dust. The EFB fibre go through pelletize machine and process, the products becomes EFB pellet.

What is the advantages for EFB pellet?

EFB Pellet Generate Low to No Smoke during Burning Process

Smoke and fume discharge during the burning process is one of the key contributor for air pollution, however the EFB pellet will not generate smoke during the burning process. This is because the pellet is a dense and dry substance which will introduce full combustion without discharge smoke or fume.

EFB pellet is a Renewable Energy Source

EFB fibre is a renewable energy and same to EFB pellet which also made by the EFB fibre. More over, the pelletize process also involve eletric energy, hence the pellet shipping from a country to another country also imply the export of electric current.

Haven’t said that, Malaysia electric tariff is much lower than many other countries such as Japan & Korea. While exporting the Malaysia local made pellet to Japan also imply Japan is enjoying competitive electric tariff as in Malaysia.

EFB Pellet is Easy in Handling, Transportation and Storage

The 6 to 10mm diameter with length <30mm pellet will be packed in a jumbo bag. The small size and high density also ensure every jumbo bag could weight around 700kg per bag. The jumbo bag could be transfer from one place to other via truck or container without wasting too much empty space.

A 20 feet container is able to store around 28MT of EFB pellet. The jumbo bag could steadily pile up in the store for storage purpose. A 20ft container is able to store more EFB pellet than palm fibre briquette.

EFB Pellet Deliver Consistent Burning Efficiency

EFB pellet will be easily burn and fully converted to ash. The pellet which put into the biomass boiler grate will thoroughly combust. 6 to 10mm diameter pellet will ensure the inner core portion of the pellet fully burn and not left any uncombust portion. An EFB briquette may need to have dedicated inner hold design in order to promote the combustion process.

EFB Pellet is Turning Waste to Usable Energy

Malaysia is one of the country with many discarded Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) with very minimum usage. Converting EFB fibre to EFB pellet has awarded Malaysia as one of the EFB pellet manufacturer. EFB pellet is one of the application to make full use of EFB fibre which initially with low to no use. The loose EFB fibre is thin and light which is not very favourable for generating heat.

EFB pellet is the compressed pellet from EFB fibre, it is a dense pellet which very suitable for combustion and heat retrieve. The smoke free during the combustion also means the EFB pellet is a good renerable energy source that will not not discharge airborne contaminant to the environment. By comparing between EFB pellet and coal, EFB pellet has much less particulate discharge during the combustion process.

January 16, 2013

EFB Pellet or EFB Fibre Material?

We know about the advantages about EFB pellet, but in this area there are still many company using raw biomass material, such as palm kernel shell, efb fibre as the biomass material. Why raw biomass material still be used instead of fully converted to EFB pellet?

Palm fibre is one of the common biomass commodity in Malaysia, by comparing the EFB palm fibre with EFB pellet, the EFB price is much lower than EFB pellet. However the steam generating cost could be another way.

There are many biomass boiler such as crude palm oil mills are using palm fibre for generating heat. The factory may seem saving in the raw material cost, but the factory really need to re-consider the overall energy efficiency in order to make a comprehensive judgement.

EFB Pellet is Low Moisture Content

Moisture is the first consideration for raw biomass material, such as EFB fibre. Most of the EFB fibre comes with high moisture, or rather said in wet condition. The moisture could go up to 60% in most cases.

Compare to EFB pellet, the moisture always stay around 10%. The EFB fire need to go through pelleting process including drying the fibre before reaching EFB pellet machine. By comparing the moisture, we already clearly know that EFB pellet is having at least 2 times less moisture as compare to the raw fibre. In order to get the same amount of biomass, the buyer requires to buy 4 times more raw EFB fibre than the EFB pellet.

Pellet Giving Stable and Efficient Heat

Similar to wood pellet or saw dust pellet, the dry EFB pellet is able to deliver predictable energy and effective energy for biomass power plant. The steam generating cost per kg(dollar/kg-of-steam) is always maintained at a steady level and more predictable. More over, EFB pellet price is more attractive than the wood pellet price.

Base on the moisture content, we could predict the steam generating cost per kg could be shoot up 4 times more than EFB pellet. More over, there are a substantial portion of the heat is used to evaporate the water content in the raw biomass material. Because of the high moisture content, user is having difficulty getting consistent heat from the raw biomass material. EFB pellet is delivering more consistent, predictable and high efficiency heat.

EFB Pellet is more easy in Handling

Transportation is one of the area many people neglected. From green energy stand point, we want the EFB pellet be able to maintain at a reasonable price range. One of the situation is minimize the transportation cost. Every jumbo bag, we are able to pack 700-800kg EFB pellet and a 20feet container will load up around 28MT The space accupy rate is much higher than the EFB fibre or EFB briquette.

More over, we want the raw material for making EFB pellet are within 20km distance. This is to ensure the transport cost should not occupy a substantial portion of the EFB pellet cost. This is also the mind set for having “green” energy.

With these 3 major advantages, we know why EFB pellet is preferable rather than the raw biomass material.