Introduction of Empty Fruit Bunch Biomass

What is empty fruit bunch? Empty fruit bunch, also known as EFB is a waste product generated during the extraction process of palm oil from oil palm fruit. In a typical palm oil mill, almost 70% of the fresh fruit bunches end up as wastes in the form of empty fruit bunches, fibers and shells. By converting these by-products into value-added products or energy brings additional profit for the palm oil Industry.

Usage of Empty Fruit Bunch

Malaysia and Indonesia currently dominate the world market in the production of palm oil, and approximately one million metric ton of empty fruit bunch (EFB) are discharged every year mainly in these two countries.

EFB used to be thrown away as waste, but over the last decades, EFB has been commercially utilized with many applications including, soil stabilization, mulch in plantation, raw material for composite board Manufacture, raw Material for pulp and paper manufacture, planting medium for nurseries and greenhouses, not to mention the application as biomass fuel.

Empty fruit bunches (EFB) is becoming a popular source of fuel for renewable energy (RE) power generation. The main achievement of using biomass-based power generation is the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Empty Fruit Bunch & Coconut Shell Shredder Machine / EFB Shredder

EFB (Palm Empty Fruit Bunch) is a good biomass material to make biofuel pellets, but due to the size and high moisture content of EFB, it is not easy to refine the size directly by hammer mill or crusher machine, so we designed the EFB shredder to crush the EFB to fiber. Our machine is updated from a drum wood chipper, we changed the structure of the knife cylinder, bottom blades, and fly blades, so that the machine can crush the FEB directly to 10-40mm size EFB fiber. This biomass material can be used for energy generation, composting, mulching, pelletizing, etc. As the biomass pellet market booming these years, to convert the EFB into biomass pellets have been get the nod by the oil plant owners and the pellet market.

Empty Fruit Bunch & Coconut Shell Shredder Machine Working Principle

EFB feed to the machine from feeding flat conveyor, workers just need to put the EFB on the belt, the flat conveyor can send the EFB to feeding mouth, the feeding mouth is controlled by a hydraulic cylinder, so it is flexible to swallow EFB with different size, from feeding mouth the EFB go to shredding chamber, which is the main part to shredding the EFB, the bottom stable blades, top blades and fly blades on knife cylinder cut the EFB and shredding them to fiber until the size of the fiber is smaller than 40mm, the fiber will be discharged from the screen, under the screen, there is the discharge conveyor, which can move away from the EFB fibber from the machine. The whole system is controlled by the electric panel, the panel can start, stop the motors and protect the motors from overload.

EFB & Coconut Shell Shredder Features

1. Easy Installation

The shredder can be simply installed on the hardened and flat floor without any foundation to civil work, which can save the installation cost and move the machine conveniently.

2. Widen Feed Inlet

With the widened feed inlet, the EFB can be fed to the chopping chamber smoothly without blocking and intertwining.

3. High Production Efficiency

With unique designing of the roller and the knife inside of the machine, the lengthened roller, enlarged diameter of the roller and the unique arrangement of the knife, the machine can shred the EFB from massive to short fiber efficiently.

4. Long Serve Life

The machine shell is made from thick and heavy casting carbon steel, which is very strong and bear the running of the machine. We produce the knives and rollers with alloy steel and unique designing, which can shred the EFB efficiently and durably.

Empty Fruit Bunch Shredder Pelletizing Technological process

Making empty fruit bunch into biomass pellets is a good solution for clean energy. The process of turning EFB into biomass fuel include shredding, drying, crushing, pelleting, cooling and packing. You can find details as below:

• 1, use an empty fruit bunch shredder or EFB shredder to shred EFB into fiber status.
• 2, use a dryer to make EFB fiber meet the required moisture.
• 3, use an empty fruit bunch crusher or EFB crusher to crush EFB into small pieces and deliver to pellet mill to make EFB pellets. For easy transportation, an EFB pellet baler is a good solution.
• 4, use a cooler to cool the EFB pellets.
• 5, use a packer to pack the EFB pellets.

Empty Fruit Bunch & Coconut Shell Shredder Manufacturer

Our factory offers various different shredders and granulators with various sizes and capacities, including single shaft shredder, double shaft shredder and granulator. Whether you are looking for a shredder for an initial size reduction process, or a granulator to obtain fine and uniform granules, Our range of products can absolutely help.