Increased energy source demand has been the current driver of Malaysia’s economic growth. Renewable is therefore included in policy to diversify its resources. With 77% land directed for agriculture – particularly palm oil plantation, biomass from industries thus considered as a viable resource. In addition 18.56 million hectares tropical forest contributed substantial wood waste logging activi...

drying properties of high moisture potato slices with initial moisture content of about 4.06 (db) under thin layer fixed, semi fluidized and fluidized bed conditions were studied. drying air temperatures of 40, 50, 60 and 70°c were applied in experiments using a laboratory fluidized bed convective dryer. in order to predict the drying behavior of potato slices, seven thin layer drying models we...

the effect of hydraulic retention time in a range from 1.0-5.5 days was evaluated in a laboratoryscaleanaerobic fixed bed reactor packed with a hybrid material composed of tire rubber and zeolite. underthese conditions, cod removal efficiencies varied from 28.3% to 82.1%, respectively. over the more than 6months of operation, no clogging was observed. the results obtained demonstrated that this...

hydrogen was produced by steam reforming of dimethyl ether (dme) using a physical mixture of commercial hzsm-5 zeolite (for dme hydrolyzing) and cu/zno/al2o3 (for methanol steam reforming) as a catalyst in a fixed bed reactor. the experiments were performed at atmospheric pressure and in a temperature range from 270 to 310 °c. the effects of feed temperature and gas hourly space velocity (ghsv)...

operability analysis as one of the most important bridges between process design and process control helps the process designer to investigate the control issues quite early in the design stage. recently, vinson and georgakis suggested a steady state geometrical operability index as a quantitative measure for assessment of process operability. in this paper, dme fixed-bed reactor is heterogeneo...