Physical characteristic study of saw dust as liquid fuels application / Syed Ahmad Alhaddad Syed Osman

Nowadays major issues regarding the climate changes due to the emissions of greenhouse gases and increasing demand on usage of energy due the technological changes and population must be overcome. These issues brought the attentions of researchers on doing extensive study on the energy alternative which is ecofriendly and does not influenced on the global warming. Thus, this research study was focused on the characteristics of saw dust biomass as an alternative for liquid fuel application through analyzing of its physical properties; proximate, heating value, FourierTransform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Biomass was good solutions for an alternative for energy production due to its low cost, energy saving and environmental friendly. This study shows the usage of saw dust biomass as an alternative for biofuel energy production towards the environment. The saw dust has high heating value of 3.0394 MJ/kg. Based from the proximate analysis, the saw dust has high volatile matter (60.47%), low fixed carbon content (21.71 %), low ash content (10.86 %) and low moisture content (6.96 %) which indicates it can be used as liquid fuel. On the other hand, FTIR analysis shows the result of the functional group obtain in the sample while TGA analysis produced the result on the mass loss achieved by saw dust sample during pyrolysis which is at 65.8% with high decomposition rate at 3.57 mg/min.