Biofuel Fire Starter From Empty Fruit Bunches Of Oil Palm Fruit Waste

Ishak, Muhammad Ariff (2016) Biofuel Fire Starter From Empty Fruit Bunches Of Oil Palm Fruit Waste. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

A fire starter is a manufactured product constructed to be used as wood fuel. Fire starter are designed to be inexpensive, and helps to create fire and more efficiently than fire wood. Fire starter are traditionally made manufactured using two methods. The first used only compressed sawdust and second used sawdust and paraffin, which is mixed and extruded into a certain shape. A new cleaner fire starter has now been developed using waste fibre from oil palm fruit bunches, EFB. Unlike sawdust logs, it burns without having trees to be felled off due to producing fire starter. This firestarter were created using EFB and virgin coconut oil, VCO as binder. A special jig has been fabricated and used in making 20 samples of firestarter. This jig used compression force from 6kgs of weight. The force applied on the EFB through a steel rod in diameter of 15 milimeters,mm for 10 seconds and the force (weight) applied is approximately around 59 Newton. The diameter of the mold used is 15mm in diameter X 20mm height. All samples need to be dry for 24 hours. The result from burning test shows that the burning time increased with higher binder volume quantity. This situation may be due to excess VCO in the EFB. The force applied during fabrication process force VCO to diffuse more into EFB. EFB has hygroscopic properties. As the conclusion, the best fire starter from EFB is the 3ml of VCO because it shows the longest burning time among other samples.

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