Biomass Gasification of Sengon Sawdust to Produce Gas Fuel

Abstract

Indonesia is a country with extensive agricultural and plantation areas that produce abundant biomass, some of which are rice husks, coconut shells, corn cobs, and wood waste. Wood waste itself has a very large number of species, for example, Sengon sawdust, Teakwood, Mahogany wood, Lamtoro wood and so on. Sengon wood is usually used as material for craftsmen and furniture, but with advanced technology, it can be done using sengon sawdust to produce syngas with the gasification process. The gasification process uses a gasifier tool. In this study, an independent variable was used in the form of sengon sawdust. While the dependent variable that will be obtained is in the form of syngas output, gasification temperature and time needed to produce syngas. The results showed that the more bait sengon sawdust, the more syngas was produced and the longer the time needed. Based on syngas analysis, CO results were obtained 17.235%; CH4 3.446%; H2 5.089%. It can be concluded that sengon wood powder waste is one of the biomass that can be used as a gasification raw material to meet energy needs.