Muhaimin Iqbal
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Oily Waste Solution

Advanced Renewable

Tue , 05 Mar 2024 20:52 WIB

Many people process oil waste, as well as biomass waste. The problem is that in industry, commercial complexes and also in land fils these two are oftenly mixed. Even though the two can be separated with great difficulty, the effort and costs for this are not feasible in waste processing. So what's the solution?

So that both can be processed simultaneously in the same process without the need for separation, elements of product similarities must be sought that can be obtained from both. Biomass when reformed with steam will become CO and H2, the same goes for oil - it also becomes CO and H2 when reformed with steam.

If we put both into the reactor that I introduced earlier, Extra High Hydrogen or XH2, then they both produce CO and H2, this is what we call syngas. Syngas from oily waste tends to have high calories, so it can be used as energy to replace petrol, diesel or LPG, especially for static engines.

It would be even more valuable if this syngas was used as fuel for transportation, for this it can be used as fuel for oxygenates such as ethanol, methanol and DME, we call the reactor STX, from Syngas to X, where X = M for methanol, X=E for ethanol and X=D for DME.

The calories and value are higher if we process this syngas into hydrocarbon fuels such as diesel, gasoline, jet-fuel and LPG. The reactor that we introduced previously was named GTX, from Gas To X, where X=D for diesel, X=G for gasoline, X = J for Jet-fuel, and

Even more than that, we can process this generally annoying oily waste into carbon-free fuels, namely hydrogen. Only one reactor is needed, the XH2 mentioned above, only the result in the form of CO is looped to produce H2 again via the Water Gas Shift (WGS) reaction.

As a result, whatever your industry, whatever the form of waste, it is very likely that it can still be used as raw material for the next industry, especially the energy industry which we call Regenerative Energy, namely energy that is regenerated from rubbish, waste and emissions. Truly nothing is wasted in His creation!