Pemanfaatan Pelepah Kelapa Sawit (Elaeis guenensisjacq.) Sebagai Bahan Baku Pembuatan Briket Arang
Abstract: Midribof palm oilis
one of thewasteoil palm plantationthat have notbeen used.Midrib of the coconut
palm has a huge potential to be used as raw material for the manufacture of
charcoal briquettes. Midrib of palm oil will be processed more intensively so
that would be expected to reduce petroleum consumption. Charcoal is a porous
solids containing 85-95% carbon produced from materials containing carbon by
heating at high temperature. Utilization ofmidrib of palm oilasthe manufacture
ofcharcoalbriquettescanbe usedtoreplaceconventionalfuelsscarceinits availabilityin
nature, so the charcoal briquettes with palmmidribrawmaterialscanbe usedas analternative
fuel. Making charcoal starting from preparation of raw materials,
carbonization, size reduction, mixingwithadhesive, printing, drying,
andtesting, withthreedifferent treatments arethe treatmentsof
charcoalwithnonsieveflour, flourtreatmentpulverizedcharcoalwith50meshsieve, and
charcoal powder treatments moothed with a70meshsieve. Tests
on charcoalbri quettesreferto theSNI.
Penulis: Muhammad Yusuf,
Rudianda Sulaeman, Evi Sribudiani
Kode Jurnal: jppertaniandd140727
