Well Know EFB Pellet Manufacturer in Malaysia

Empty fruit bunch or EFB is one of the common biomass commodity in Malaysia.

Turning EFB fibre into EFB pellet is getting many manufactures’ attention in Malaysia. There are more and more EFB pellet manufacturers in Malaysia as we are seeing the demand of this EFB pellet is increasing.

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EFB pellet can be used to replace coal for heating purpose. EFB pellet not only deliver high heat energy but also reduce the particulate discharge to the air. Please read EFB pellet general introduction.

Why Malaysia is Popular in EFB Pellet Manufacture

EFB fibre is the raw material for EFB pellet. Oil palm industry is the main argriculture crops in Malaysia, many plantation has been converted to oil palm estate. EFB is one of the discarded product from crude palm oil mail, EFB contribute 20% out from a fresh FFB.

For an ordinary crude palm oil mill, every hour there will be 15MT of EFB being discarded after crushing for palm oil. The EFB will go through EFB palletizing process for manufacturing become EFB pellet. Because of the large volume of EFB, this has make Malaysia becomes an EFB pellet manufacturer.

Other Factor Becoming EFB Pellet Manufacturer in Malaysia

Apart from EFB fibre, the electric tariff also another factor that make Malaysia suitable for EFB pellet manufacture.

The EFB pellet machine basically is using mechanical force to compress efb fibre become pellet, this process requires electric to make the motor turn. Hence, electric tariff contribute a major portion of EFB pellet cost, since Malaysia maintain a low electric tariff, this make Malaysia having the advantages for setting up pelletize process.

Contact DST, the EFB Pellet Manufacturer in Malaysia

There is an increasing efb pellet manufacturer in Malaysia, and DST is one of the pioneer on efb pellet manufacturer in Malaysia. We supply the EFB pellet and saw dust pellet to world wide market.

There are several reasons that makes DST is one of the key EFB pellet manufacturer in Malaysia,

Steady supply of EFB fibre.

Own logistic team for transporting the EFB pellet effectively and efficiently.

High performance pelleting machine setup.

Skill and knowledgable employee.

As a EFB pellet manufacturer and supplier in Malaysia, we are looking forward Malaysia will becomes one of the key exporters of EFB pellet for biomass power plant. Please kindly write to DST for understand more about our pellet products.

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Factors Affecting EFB Pellet Price

EFB pellet product has slowly becomes popular in the renewable energy market, and we are very confident the EFB pellet will sooner get the higher market share. We are slowly seeing EFB pellet price advantage compare to other similar commodity, such as wood pellet price.

In order to propose a new renewable energy to t

he end user, apart from advantages of the products, the availability and pricing are another 2 important factors for determining whether EFB pellet could becomes a popular commodity. We have discuss several advantages for EFB pellet in previous article, and in this article, we would like to discuss about EFB pellet price factor.

Factors Determining EFB Pellet Price

Raw EFB Fibre Cost

Empty Fruit Bunch or we name as EFB in most cases is the discarded product many years ago, now the efb has no more a free item from oil palm mill. EFB price has direct impacted to the EFB pellet price. Currently, EFB pellet manufacturer in Malaysia need to buy in order to acquire the EFB fibre from oil palm mill.

EFB Pellet Machine Setup and Routine Maintenance Cost

The EFB pellet machine maintenance cost will evenly added into the EFB pellet price, meanwhile pellet manufacturer will consider the pellet machine depreciation or amortization so that the amount also be added in part of the fix cost.

EFB Pellet Operation Cost

Operation cost can be classified into several field, such as:

Manpower cost.

Malaysia has enforced low salary scheme start from year 2013.

Factory Rental.

Supporting cost.

Even though the EFB pellet factory is highly automated, but there are many activities that need supporting facility, such as folk lift, shovel. This could also part of the operation cost which always neglected.

Electrical Tariff.

Electrical tariff is one of the main cost for operation, perhaps it affected the EFB pellet price significantly. Pellet machine requires huge electric current in order to press the EFB fibre into dense pellet. Malaysia is one of the low electric tariff country in south east asia, please see the Malaysia electric tariff from TNB, and this is also one of the advantages to have high electric consumption plant being setup in low tariff country like Malaysia.

Packing Cost.

The efb pellet is packed under jumbo bag. Even though the jumbo bag does not directly affected the EFB pellet quality but it may reach certain quality for protecting the EFB pellet during the entiring storage and handling stage.

Transportation for EFB fibre and EFB Pellet

Transportation is one of the main contributor for EFB pellet price, it significantly affected the EFB pellet price. In order to keep a reasonable price ratio, the EFP pellet manufacturer need to consider and maintain at low transportation cost.

There are many other factors affected the EFB pellet price and cost, but above are a few which directly impact the pricing level that we should looking into.

December 22, 2012

EFB Pellet or Shredded EFB Fibre

EFB pellet and shredded efb pellet both are classified as biomass commodity; it also belongs to renewable energy commodity. EFB pellet is the compressed pellet from efb pellet machine by using

the palm fibre which distills from oil palm empty fruit bunch. Shredded EFB consider as empty fruit bunch which only go through limited process.

For bio fuel user, which one should we select? Should we choose EFB pellet or Shredded EFB Fibre?

Study the details about EFB Pellet and Shredded EFB Fibre

Shredded EFB Fiber

The oil palm fruit bunch will go through a steam process in order to dismantle the palm fruit from the bunch. The empty fruit bunch (EFB) discarded from the crude palm oil mill is at wet and hot condition. The wet EBF will be delivered to press process in order to squeeze the water out from the empty fruit bunch. Later the pressed EFB will send for shredded process.

Shredded process is similar as a “chopping” process. The purpose for the shredded is to chop the EFB to smaller dimension that easy to transport and act as biomass. The pressed and shredded EFB turn out as fibre form but in larger scale.

Shredded EFB fibre is transferred for biomass boiler for retrieving heat via burning process. Some of the biomass boilers do not requires higher energy heat will directly burn the shredded EFB fiber.

EFB Pellet

EFB pellet resemble to wood pellet, the difference is EFB pellet is the pressed pellet from EFB fibre. The small pellet size is very much suitable for almost any input grate system. Field facility engineer could use this EFB pellet without much consideration of input system.

This dense pellet is a common biomass commodity for furnace and biomass boiler. Because of the dense structure, EFB pellet is easy to retain heat than shredded fibre. EFB pellet and palm fiber briquette are the suitable commodities for biomass power plant.

EFB pellet or Shredded EFB Fiber

For Malaysia local domestic market, because steam boiler may not require high heat energy, shredded EFB fibre is selected because of price concern. However for furnace boiler which require higher heat, EFB pellet is more suitable.

More over, the EFB pellet is dry and dense product which also favourable for packing and longer time storage purpose.

DST is one of the key biomass suppliers for Malaysia market, we also the leading pellet and palm briquette manufacturer for quality biomass product, our EFB pellet and palm fiber briquette has been widely used in many biomass industries. For interest party, please kindly write to DST and talk with us about your needs.