Biomass Block Press BP 18

BENEFITS FOR SUGAR MILLS AND OTHERS
Pressed Biomass that is made from sugar cane leaves and tops can replace fossil fuel (diesel oil, gas and coal) as feed stock for boilers.
The increasing supplies of fuel as a result of the utilization of Pressed Biomass will increase steam and electricity generating efficiencies.
The utilization of biomass can reduce the burning of sugar cane trash at fields and contribute to the promotion of renewable energy.
An opportunity to gain Carbon Emission Reduction (CER) facilities under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

THE FUNCTION OF BIOMASS BLOCK PRESS BP 18
To produce alternative energy made from biomass, such as sugar cane waste, by densification process and formation of blocks sized 40 x 40 x
The densification process uses mechanical or impact method that can cut biomass into short pieces and then press and shape the material into blocks of the uniform sizes.
Pressed Biomass accounts for only 25% of the initial biomass volume so that its transport, handling and storage is far easier.

USABLE BIOMASS FEED-STOCKS
Sugar cane leaves and tops (Javanese: daduk), oil palm empty fruit bunch, and other oil palm trash.
Rice straw, corn waste, and soya bean trash.
Other long fiber and solid biomass such as coarse grass, shrubs, forestry trash, bamboo tops and twigs, and the likes.
A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FOR COOPERATIVES AND SME
Sugar cane farmers can utilize sugar cane waste by setting up Biomass Mills, under the management of cooperatives or small/medium scale enterprises (SME), and become suppliers of this new fuel to:
Big companies that operating boilers and turbines such as sugar mills and power plants that use biomass as a source of energy.
2. A high technology project that convert biomass into liquid fuel through Biomass Gasification and Gas to Liquid (GTL) processes. (see illustration on page 10).