Conference Dates

June 16-21, 2019

Abstract

The oil palm industry is one of the largest producers of residual biomass, leading to environmental and economic concerns. For this reason, the concept of biorefinery is emerging as a means to create new ways of converting biomass into new types of renewable products bioenergetics that can contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases. In this context, this document presents a study that consisting of a biorefinery configuration in a Palm Oil Mill (POM), considering the fast pyrolysis process to produce bio-oil and biochar, and an extraction / trans-esterification stage to produce biodiesel and glycerin in the POM. The environmental impacts associated with a production process of a biorefinery system were calculated using the life cycle assessment methodology through the IMPACT 2002+ method, which analyzes the environmental impacts in four categories of damage (human health, ecosystem quality, climate change and resources). Therefore, to produce bio-oil, biodiesel and electricity were obtained 52 mPt, 120 mPt and 127 mPt of total impacts, respectively, demonstrating that the fast pyrolysis process to obtain bio-oil it does not generate considerably high environmental impacts compared with the other products obtained in the biorefinery in any of the categories of damage assessed.

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