
Oil palms are cash crops widely planted in Malaysia, Indonesia and other Tropical areas. EFB—empty fruit bunches are biomass wastes of oil palms. There are immense volume of EFB left in palm oil plants every day. The high heat value makes them an excellent raw material for making biomass energy. Making biomass pellets with GEMCO EFB pellet press is a profitable business.
EFB refers to the empty fruit bunches of oil palm. As we know, oil palm fruits grows on large bunches. Every bunch has more than 2000 fruits. Oil palm is the most efficient oil production plant in the world. In Malaysia, the oil yield is 5 tons per hectare, which is much more than peanuts and soybeans. It is widely used as cooking oil or biodiesels.
Thanks to the high economical benefits, oil palm are extensively planted in tropical areas like Africa, South America and South East Asia. Malaysia and Indonesia are world’s major palm oil producers.

Palm oil is extracted from palm kernel and flesh by cook, crush and squeeze. During this process, the empty fruit bunches and palm shells are separated. They are an enormous amount of residues. Take Malaysia for example: the palm planting area is over 4 million hectares, with the left EFB more than 15 million tons.
For a long time, they are discarded in palmary or burned to ash as fertilizer, with a few of them fully recycled. Because EFB contains vascular bundles, a fibrous material with high elasticity and low density, they can be used to make papers and cushions. Besides, owing to its high heat value and low carbon emission, it emerge as an excellent biomass energy, widely applied in power generation and industrial production.


As statistics show, Palm oil is the second widely used cooking oil, only second to soybean salad oil. There are immense palm plantation in tropical areas that provides oil palm fruit for oil extraction. This mean there are tremendous quantity of biomass wastes left every day. So you don’t have to worry about the raw material supply

Collecting EFB for making biomass fuel is also convenient. Oil palm plantations are concentrated in tropical areas, Malaysia and Indonesia in particular. You can find the empty fruit bunches easily in local oil extraction plants, without bothering to collect them from different sources.

As said above, oil palm EFBs are high-efficiency biomass energy. They are abundant in fibrous materials, and contain neither chemical nor mineral additives. They release more heat than general biomass fuel, and reduce green house gasses emission. You can make EFB pellets by drying, crushing and pressing them. Also, you can mix EFB with other raw materials to make blended fuels.

Wide range application is another advantage of EFB pellet fuel. As businesses are under high pressure from government and citizens for their environmental effect, they are making efforts to look for alternative energy. Biomass energy comes as an ideal solution. By virtue of low cost and simple processing techniques, it rapidly gains the company’s favor, and plays an important role in power generation, printing and dying mill, food processing, electroplate factory, etc.

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How to make pellets with EFB pellet press?
EFB pellet press can also process other biomass materials like sawdust, maize stalk, rice husk, peanut shell, etc. The distinction is their compression ratio, which is varied according to specific raw materials. The EFB pellets making process includes drying, crushing, pressing, cooling and packaging.





