Biomass is one of the renewable energy that has been revealing its potential as a substituent for... more Biomass is one of the renewable energy that has been revealing its potential as a substituent for natural fossil fuels recently. Nowadays, converting biomass via liquefaction technology appears to be another alternative to obtain valuable high energy products such as biofuel, gas and char. In this study, oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) has been chosen as the source of biomass for biomass-to-biofuel conversion. The main focus of the study was on the presence of different composition of Zn supported on zeolite ZSM-5 as solid acid catalyst to enhance the production of bio-oil from the biomass. The prepared catalysts were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET), field-emission scanning electron microscope with energy-dispersive X-Ray spectroscopy (FE-SEM/EDX) and temperature-programmed desorption (TPD)–NH3. Gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) was employed for bio-oil analysis. Conversion of EFB to liquid products was carried out by using an au...
Biomass is one of the renewable energy that has been revealing its potential as a substituent for... more Biomass is one of the renewable energy that has been revealing its potential as a substituent for natural fossil fuels recently. Nowadays, converting biomass via liquefaction technology appears to be another alternative to obtain valuable high energy products such as biofuel, gas and char. In this study, oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) has been chosen as the source of biomass for biomass-to-biofuel conversion. The main focus of the study was on the presence of different composition of Zn supported on zeolite ZSM-5 as solid acid catalyst to enhance the production of bio-oil from the biomass. The prepared catalysts were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET), field-emission scanning electron microscope with energy-dispersive X-Ray spectroscopy (FE-SEM/EDX) and temperature-programmed desorption (TPD)–NH3. Gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) was employed for bio-oil analysis. Conversion of EFB to liquid products was carried out by using an au...
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