The high consumption of fossil fuels as the pedestal current
economic activity has caused adverse effects on the environment such as the
climate change and environmental issues. Accumulation of carbon dioxide
concentration in the atmosphere that has exceeded the threshold needs to be
reduced to the safe limit. Some things you can do include: improving energy efficiency of various equipment and machines today are
still using fossil fuel, using fuel or renewable energy sources and absorb
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. When we review the balance of carbon
emitted by the use of renewable fuels or substitution of fossil fuels with
renewable energy is carbon neutral, while the absorption of carbon dioxide gas
in the atmosphere is carbon negative.
Low-carbon economy as a solution to climate change and the
environment is how economic sectors are encouraged to carbon neutral conditions
even carbon negative. Biomass energy is one solution to achieve the low-carbon
economy. Availability of biomass feedstock in Indonesia in particular, is very
abundant and has a small part that is less than 5% is used as an energy source.
The Optimum scenario of utilization the biomass into environmentally friendly
forms of energy is the next questions when we has dropped the option to use as
an energy source.
Continuous pyrolysis technology as a second generation biofuel technology is the best solution in order to establish the era of
low-carbon economy. Products such as charcoal / biochar, biooil, and syngas will
be generated by this technology. Especially biomass waste or organic waste can
be directly processed at the site to produce the products as above.
Agro-industry companies such as palm oil mill generate huge biomass waste every
day. Indonesia and Malaysia as the largest palm oil producer in the world or
around 87% of world production (2007) that had a lot of palm oil mills is
estimated at more than 1,000 units, so that the biomass waste available is overwhelming.
Especially in palm oil industries, product
biochar (charcoal) will have a major
role to improve
soil fertility, including reducing the need for chemical fertilizers (urea) in oil palm
plantations, so it will be very profitable. A number of efforts have
been carried out by the palm oil
companies to increase
their effectiveness in fertilization
and soil enrichment,
and with biochar
is like like 1 shoot killed 2 birds, palm solid
waste problem can be overcome,
gain energy sources
and improvement of soil fertility. Biochar (charcoal) in addition to be able to fertilize the soil is capable of capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to a
carbon negative mechanism, while biooil and
syngas can be applied as a carbon neutral fuel
because it comes from biomass.
