{"title":"Utilization ultrasonic to increase the efficiency of oil extraction for microalgae indigenous isolates from pond gresik, east java","authors":"E. Suarsini, S. Subandi","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041496","url":null,"abstract":"The prospect of microalgae biomass as biodiesel is a renewable energy to substitute for petroleum. Identification of microalgae indigenous from Gresik ponds, East Java are 29 species, and at Biological laboratory, Science Faculty, UM was able to isolate 10 species. Among the isolated, there are 2 species that faster growth rate, Chlorella vulgaris and Spirogyra sp. Generally, extraction of oil from microalgae biomass requires a long time. The aims from the research are to examine three methods of oil extraction from the two species of microalgae, the experimental laboratory techniques. Biomass of microalgae dry powder was extracted using the solvent n-hexane by three methods, Soxhlet, maceration and ultrasonic waves. On the acquisition of microalgae oil the yield equivalent, compared with extraction time from the three methods. The smaller time of microalgae oil extraction is the more efficient extraction. The results showed: (1) The use of ultrasonic waves can improve the efficiency of microalgae oil extraction. (2) The yield of algae oil which is extracted using the method Soxhlet, maceration, and extraction with the aid of ultrasonic waves in a row is 1.58%, 1.03%, and 1.77% by the time it takes for 18 hours, 8 hours, and 2.33 hours.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126734749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temperature dependence of biomass combustion kinetics","authors":"H. Saptoadi, T. A. Rohmat, A. Pratoto","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041462","url":null,"abstract":"Biomass residues, such as rice straw, are available abundantly in most Asian countries, where rice is replaceable. In order to better utilize the wastes as fuels, they are pyrolyzed prior to its briquetting in order to improve the Heating Value and carbon content. The pyrolysis process is carried out at 400°C for 30 minutes. The heat required for pyrolysis is supplied by electric resistance nickel wires coiled around the cylindrical reactor. The obtained char is crushed, mixed with natural binding material and then briquetted in form of a bar with rectangular cross sections 16 × 16 mm and height between 28 – 35 mm. The briquettes weigh around 5 gram, consists of 4 gram char and 1 gram binder. Subsequently the briquettes undergo combustion process in the same reactor but the wall temperature is kept constant at 350 °C, while the initial temperature of the combustion process is varied 125 °C, 150 °C, 175 °C, 200 °C, and 225 °C. The observed combustion processes (represented by reaction rates, combustion periods and maximum temperatures) reveal their strong dependence on briquette temperatures, as shown in the Arrhenius formula. The acquired thermogravimetry data (temperatures and masses) are stored and analyzed in order to determine the Activation Energy and Pre-exponential Coefficient of the combustion kinetics. The activation energy varies between 87 and 370 kJ/mol, while the Pre-exponential Coefficient changes even more terribly between 195,000 and 8.54 × 1035 m/s. Theoretically, these values should be closely similar, because they should be specific to carbon, regardless of the source material, the process, and the initial temperature. Nevertheless, since combustion of solids is highly unstable, the acquired fluctuated data lead to these varying results.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132331560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Khamis, Zulasyraf M. Badarudin, Azhar Ahmad, Azhan Ab. Rahman, N. A. Bakar
{"title":"Development of mini scale compressed air energy storage system","authors":"A. Khamis, Zulasyraf M. Badarudin, Azhar Ahmad, Azhan Ab. Rahman, N. A. Bakar","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041477","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, we know about the problem of decreasing the source of natural gas fuel, makes the higher fuel cost for Gas Turbine power plant usage. Because of that, the new technology called the Compressed Air Energy Storage system is created. The main concept of this system is use off-peak power to pressurize air into an underground reservoir, which is then released during peak daytime hour to power Gas Turbine for power production. This project is to design in small scale system where it can use off-peak electricity to switch on the air compressor to compressed air. Then the compressed air produced will store in high pressure cylinder tank replace the airtight underground caverns. When the air is released from the high pressure tank, the air expands through a micro-turbine which connected single shaft with generator rotor. Then the micro turbine run and rotate generator rotor that convert mechanical energy to electrical energy. Output voltage then will convert from dc to ac voltage.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127252570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. S. Hossain, N. Rahim, K. H. Solangi, R. Saidur, H. Fayaz, N. Madlool
{"title":"Global solar energy use and social viability in Malaysia","authors":"M. S. Hossain, N. Rahim, K. H. Solangi, R. Saidur, H. Fayaz, N. Madlool","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041461","url":null,"abstract":"Along with the enhancement of technology and alarming of global warming, various types of technologies are advanced worldwide nowadays to harness the energy from the sun such as solar thermal energy, ocean thermal energy conversion, solar ponds, solar tower and photovoltaic systems to utilize the energy in the majority of domestic applications and industrial sector to a certain extent. Subsequently, gradual increase usage of solar energy requires creating awareness among public to protect the environment in term of green campaign which is one of the hot topics among the Malaysians where there are many organizations organizing green campaign such as Environmental Protection Society Malaysia (EPSM), Malaysia Environment NGOs (MENGO) and Treat Every Environment Special Sdn. Bhd. (TRESS). Therefore, this study examines solar energy production and consumption worldwide by looking at various existing solar technologies to have the understanding of each technology. This article also intends to catch up specifically the social viability of solar energy production and use, with the availability of the resources for the full scale development.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114454346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microwave material processing for green technology","authors":"T. Sonobe","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041500","url":null,"abstract":"Microwave material processing is attracting interest as a green technology for conserving energy and improving efficiency in conventional industrial processes for mitigating CO2 emissions. Because of various advantages over conventional methods, such as rapid and selective heating, as well its ability to provide internal heating of substances, microwave heating can reduce the time and lower the temperature necessary for material processing. Recently, several approaches have been studied for microwave material processing such as the sintering of ceramics, metal powder, and the metal production. Furthermore, thermal non-equilibrium state during microwave processing has been often reported such as enhancement of chemical reactions as well as rapid phase mixing at grain boundary of iron. We have also observed a unique feature of luminescence from several metal oxides such as TiO2 and ZnO during microwave irradiation under vacuum. In this study, wide potential of microwave material processing is proposed for achieving a green technological innovation.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129068362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low voltage ride through capability of fuel cell generation system connected to low voltage network","authors":"M. Wanik, A. Mohamed, A. Kadir, I. Erlich","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041511","url":null,"abstract":"New grid code is expected to require distributed generation units operating parallel with the low voltage grid to ride through low voltage event and at the same time injecting reactive current into the grid. The paper discusses and highlights the problems that could arise and explores the solutions to mitigate these problems. Simulation results show that a fuel cell generation system (FCGS) is not able to ride through very low voltage events with its standard power conditioner without operating within its design limit. Additional devices have to be included to enable continuous operation during this severe low voltage event. In meeting the requirement of reactive power support, an additional fast voltage control loop has to be added to its line side converter control. With the improvement inside its power conditioner circuit and controller, simulation results demonstrate that FCGS is capable of riding zero voltage events while at the same time adhering to new grid code requirements.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131412288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DSP-based maximum peak power tracker using P&O algorithm","authors":"N. Razali, N. Rahim","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041455","url":null,"abstract":"One of the common research study on solar energy is on how to improve the maximum use of solar generated power because they exhibits a nonlinear current-voltage (I–V) and power-voltage (P-V) characteristics depends on the weather changes. Generally, many methods have been introduced, known as solar maximum power point tracking (MPPT). This paper presents a study on MPPT technique namely Perturbation and Observation (P&O) implemented in Digital Signal Processor (DSP) TMS320F2812 software. The proposed system mainly comprises a dc boost converter, Siemens SP75 solar modules and DSP software and hardware. Simulation and experimental setup together with the results are shown and explained.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115438859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design analysis of low-pass passive filter in single-phase grid-connected transformerless inverter","authors":"M. Azri, N. Rahim","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041489","url":null,"abstract":"Presented is the design analysis of a single-phase grid-connected photovoltaic-inverter low-pass-output filter. It minimizes switching-frequency current harmonics, improving output response. The inverter is H-Bridge transformerless. Switching frequencies 8Hz, 14kHz, and 20kHz were compared for validation of the simulation and the experiment.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114453838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syntheses, characterizations and testings of carbon nanofiber for hydrogen adsorption studies","authors":"N. Shah, S. Sufian, S. Yusup","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041473","url":null,"abstract":"Renewable energy (RE) has been declared as the fifth fuel of Malaysia in addition to oil, gas, coal and hydropower. One of RE which is hydrogen and has became an alternative fuel for transportation instead of petroleum. For sufficient hydrogen storage, the system requires an inexpensive, safe, low weight tank, comparable in to a gasoline tank with capability of quick loading and unloading hydrogen fuel. Carbon nanomaterials have been nominated as one of the best medium to store hydrogen due to its light weight, low cost production depending upon types of synthesis methods, non-toxic and can be generated with improvement in its storage capacity. The research work focuses on the development of graphitic nanofibers by using chemical vapor deposition method. The development of catalyst which was iron (III) oxide and nickel (II) oxide for the synthesis of graphitic nanofibers has also been investigated. The capacity of the developed materials in hydrogen adsorption is tested at 298K and the pressure up to 100 bar using gravimetric measurement technique. Sample imaging observations using field emission electron microscopy (FESEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) indicate that the synthesized graphitic nanofibers (GNFs) have both platelet and herringbone structure with little carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Iron-based catalyst GNF (FG) samples have diameter size of 170 nm while nickel-based catalyst GNF (NG) has diameter size of 200 nm. Specific BET surface area of FG and NG are 92.34 m2/g and 45.96 m2/g, respectively. Both analysis which are energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) and thermogravimetric proved that purity of FG is between 88% to 95% while purity of NG is ranges from 95% to 97%. For iron-based catalyst GNF, the highest uptake is 0.46wt % at 70 bar and for nickel-based catalyst GNF, the highest uptake is 1.7611wt % at 70 bar.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128218327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Mohamed, T. Sie Ting, N. Amin, T. Abdullah, R. Mat
{"title":"Conversion of glycerol to methanol in the presence of zeolite based catalysts","authors":"M. Mohamed, T. Sie Ting, N. Amin, T. Abdullah, R. Mat","doi":"10.1109/CET.2011.6041503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CET.2011.6041503","url":null,"abstract":"While the production of biodiesel increased, significant amounts of glycerol, a byproduct that will become abundant if large scale bio-diesel production is implemented. The glycerol byproduct amount to about 10 wt% of the total biodiesel produced. Rather than consider the crude glycerol as a waste as a result of the increased amount of glycerol byproduct, many research being done to convert glycerol to value added products. There is no previous study on the direct conversion of glycerol to methanol. Therefore, this preliminary work studied the effect of metal loading on zeolite on the conversion and yield of methanol. Zeolite HZSM-5 was loaded with different amount of Nickel and Copper. The experiments were carried out in the presence of Nitrogen as carrier gas by using fixed bed reactor at 500oC and atmospheric pressure. The catalysts were characterized by XRD while the products were analyzed by GC-FID for calculation of conversion and yield of methanol. The results from the experiments suggested that Cu/HZSM-5 had the highest conversion and methanol yield with 100% and 6.70% respectively.","PeriodicalId":360345,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128960348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}