{"id":186,"date":"2018-05-15T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T09:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/?p=186"},"modified":"2018-05-15T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T09:39:02","slug":"effects-of-torrefaction-on-the-bio-coal-properties-of-rice-husk-an-agro-processing-wastes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"EFFECTS OF TORREFACTION ON THE BIO-COAL PROPERTIES OF RICE HUSK: AN AGRO-PROCESSING WASTES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Farhana Othman, Siti Umairah Mohd Hudzori and Asnida Yanti Ani<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> torrefaction, bio-coal, rice husk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Rice husk, an agro-processing waste in the Malaysia rice mills was investigated for its suitability as a prospective bioenergy feedstock for better fuel characteritics. In order to improve the bio-coal quality, rice husk pretreatment was done for upgrading the biomass feedstock before pyrolysis taken place. Bio-coal was produced by torrefaction which is a thermal process occured in a quartz reactor with nitrogen gas flow 100 ml\/min. The operating was varying in reaction temperature (200, 250 and 300 \u00b0C) and processing time (10 min, 20 min and 30 min). The results of 1.35% mass yield, 80.07 % energy yield with higher heating value (HHV) of 19.024 MJ\/kg was achived at optimum temperature 300\u00b0C and 30 minutes processing time. Proximate analysis of bio-coal indicated 1.35% moisture content and 15.69% of ash content. The temperature and processing time of torrefaction are found to be the most sensitive parameters in terms of energy yield and mass yield of bio-coal. Therefore, rice husk would be practical alternative as solid bio-fuel for cofiring with coal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1gkhqlCbDId_AELlUs34I5xicm1gmfS2B\"><input src=\"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/downloadpdfbutton.png\" type=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farhana Othman, Siti Umairah Mohd Hudzori and Asnida Yanti Ani Keywords: torrefaction, bio-coal, rice husk. Abstract: Rice husk, an agro-processing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abstract.i-idea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}