Pramadhana, Andre Nugraha and Widiputri, Diah Indriani and Pari, Gustan (2018) Improvement Of Combustion Quality Of Biomass Briquette From Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia Crassipes) For Alternative Energy. Bachelor thesis, Swiss German University.

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Abstract

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is a floating plant species, which spreads rapidly in fresh water area. This plant has found to cause environmental problems, such as clogging drainage, water intakes, and ditches, shading out other aquatic vegetation and interfering with fishing, shipping as well as recreational activities. In contrast to its drawbacks, water hyacinth is considered as one of the potential agricultural wastes in Indonesia that can be processed into an alternative solid fuel. Carbonization followed by briquetting is one of the methods that can be applied to process biomass into solid fuels. This work investigated the effect of carbonization temperature and two different types of binders on combustion characteristic of water hyacinth biomass. In this work, carbonization was carried out at three different temperatures, i.e. 350ºC, 400ºC and 450ºC, while comparing the application of two types of binders, which were tapioca gel and polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) adhesive. The results show that carbonization process of water hyacinth increased the fixed carbon content and the calorific value, and the best result was obtained at 450 o C with tapioca gel as the binder. With this condition, the fixed carbon content in the biomass briquette could be increased up to 34.14% with a calorific value of 3,837 kcal/kg. Although the combustion efficiency was only 4.89%. The application of water hyacinth as biomass briquette has shown a promising alternative to reduce CO emission and the above-mentioned environment problems.

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Water Hyacinth; Biomass; Briquette; Environment; Alternative Energy
Subjects:	S Agriculture > SB Plant culture > SB615 Water hyacinth T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery > TJ807 Renewable energy sources T Technology > TP Chemical technology > TP248 Starch
Divisions:	Faculty of Life Sciences and Technology > Department of Sustainable and Energy Environment
Depositing User:	Astuti Kusumaningrum
Date Deposited:	28 Sep 2020 08:41
Last Modified:	28 Sep 2020 08:41
URI:	http://repository.sgu.ac.id/id/eprint/860

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