Palm Kernel Shells

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Palm kernel shell has become one of the valuable commodities in palm oil industry, many usages or application has been developed.
Biomass is biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms. As an energy source, biomass can either be burned directly or converted into other energy products such as biofuel. Biomass can be used to generate electricity with steam turbines & gasifiers or produce heat, usually by direct combustion or co-firing or, with the help from enzymes, be converted into renewable, low carbon sustainable fuels.
The biomass industry in Nigeria is not well developed and only a few operators in the industry.
The biomass power generating industry in the United States, which consists of approximately *1,**0 MW of summer operating capacity actively supplying power to the grid, produces about 1.4 percent of the U.S. electricity supply.
The palm oil plant { Elais Guinensis}, considering its three different varieties Dura, Peripheral and Tenera, produces an edible fruit similar to an apricot which has inside a nut. During the crude palm oil process that fruits flesh is melted through a steaming treatment.
The residual nuts are further mechanically crashed shells are called palm kernel shell {PKS}, a virgin biomass with high calorific value {NCVAR typical abt 3,**0 kcal/kg- ASTM D******2}.
Palm kernel shells has a very low ash and sulphur contents
Ash content {typical abt 3% weight ASTM D ******2}
Sulphur