new business opportunity for palm oil-based biorefinery

7 - 10 May 2012EU-Asia Biomass Best Practices and Business

Partnering Conference 2012Biorefinery - 1

Denny K. S. NG, PhD, AMIChemE

The University of Nottingham, Malaysia

Global Green Synergy Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

GGS Eco Solutions Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

New Business Opportunity for Palm Oil-based Biorefinery



Presentation outline

• Introduction

– Oil Palm Biomass

– Palm Oil-based Biorefinery

– Biomass Value Losses

• Systematic Strategy Utilisation and Optimisation of Palm Oil-based Biorefinery

• Synthesis of Oil Palm Biomass Supply Chain

• Conclusion



(MPOB, 2011)

Palm Oil Industry



*Based on 83.92 million tonnes FFB proceed in 2010

Biomass available from Palm Oil Industry

% from FFB*Quantity

(106 tonnes)

Empty Fruit Brunch (EFB) 23 19.30

Mesocape Fiber 13 10.90

Palm Kernel Shell 6 5.04

Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME)

60 50.35

Palm Oil Industry



Malaysia Palm Oil industry is producing 19 millions metric tons of empty fruit brunch (EFB) yearly.

Left as waste

Most of the times



Most of mill owners send EFB to landfill.



Types of oil palm biomass

Mesocarp

Palm Kernel Cake Palm Kernel Shell

POME

Empty Fruit Bunch



Palm Oil-based Biorefinery

• Processing facility that transform oil palm biomassinto any value-added products.

– Biofuels

– Biomaterials

– Specialty chemicals

– Pharmaceuticals



• First generation– Direct heat & power generation via biomass boiler

– Dried Long Fiber

– Palm Briquette

– Palm Pellet

– Bio-Organic Compost

– Biogas

Footsteps of Palm Oil-based Biorefinery



Palm Briquette

• An ideal green fuel which substitutes the conventional fossil fuels such as coal



Palm Pellet

• Ideal Green Fuel for Power Plant• High Calorific Value • Bulk handling for Export Market



Palm Compost

• “ Zero” Waste Discharge concept in Palm Oil Mill



Bio-Charcoal

TorrefiedPalm Pellet

Palm BasedLiquid Fertilizer

Bio-Organic Compost

Fiber MatDried Long Fiber

Palm Briquette

Source: Global Green Synergy

Palm Pellet

Palm Kernel Shell

Products of Palm Oil-based Biorefinery



Footsteps of Palm Oil-based Biorefinery

• Second generation– Biofuels (e.g., biodiesel, gasoline)

– Biochemicals (e.g., ethanol, butanols)

– High value products (e.g., fuel additives)



Value-added products

Biodiesel Biomass Boiler Briquette

Fiber Pallet



Palm

Oil

Biomass

Valuable

Products

NO SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS &

OPTIMISATION TOOLS



Objectives

� Systematic analysis for synthesis of palm oil-based

biorefinery

� Optimisation of biomass utilisation

� Minimise biomass value losses & environmental impact

� Development for sustainable manufacturing



Optimisation Model

i = NSOURCE

Source

j = 1

j = 2

j = 3

j = NPROCESS

Process

/ Sink

p = 1

p = 2

p = 3

p = NINTER

Intermediate

j = 1

j = 2

j = 3

j = NPROCESS

Process

/Sink

p' = 1

p' = 2

p' = 3

p' = NPRODUCT

i = 1

i = 2

i = 3

Product



Objectives

Maximise

•Economic Potential

•Revenue

Minimise

•Biomass Losses

•Environmental Impact



Optimisation Result

• Decision making

• Strategy utilisation of biomass for MAXIMUM profit and MINIMUM losess

• Sustainable manufacturing

• Promotion of palm oil industry as GREEN industry



Objectives

• Linkage of all palm oil products in an efficient network

• Future business expansion planning

• Decision making guidelines

• For marketing / promotions on greener production



Tools used

Mathematical Programming

(MP)

Geographical Information System

(GIS)



Geographical Information System (GIS)

14

Map

Quantities

Impacts

Changes

…

Location

Densities



Location of the biomass sources

Transportation and infrastructure

Potential customer & market

Stage 1 (Data Analysis)



Stage 2 (Utilisation of Palm Oil Biomass)

site

route

production

What, How, Who, Where?



Stage 3 (Malaysia oil palm biomass & products supply chain)



Outcome

�Existing processes – provide the most optimum processing options

– Processing options include:

• Transportation route

• Raw material supply

• Infrastructure type…

�New business expansion – provide the optimum options for decision making



Conclusion

• Palm oil biomass is the “BIOMASS KING” in Malaysia

• Systematic strategy utilisation and optimisation of palm oil biomass

– Reduce biomass value losses & increase profit

– Sustainable manufacturing

– Promote GREEN industry

• Biomass supply Chain

– Most optimum processing options

– New business expansion



Contact Details:

[email protected]

new business opportunity for palm oil-based biorefinery

Documents