Physical characteristics study of roots (wood) as fuel application: article

The depleting of fossil fuel has increased due to increasing demand of its usage. Forestry biomass is currently seen as the potential source of energy as it is being used to produce biofuel as one of the substitute for fossil fuels. The physical characterization study of forestry biomass is essential in order to identify its efficiency as fossil fuel substitute. This study presents the physical characterization of the chosen forestry biomass, root (woods) as fuel application by undergoing several analyses such as proximate analysis, Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) analysis and heating value. The proximate analysis results indicated that roots (wood) contains 4.79% moisture, 51.92% volatile matter, 4.72% ash and 38.57% fixed carbon; respectively. The study on the thermogravimetric behaviour of the roots (wood) indicates that the thermal decomposition of biomass sample decomposed at temperature above 250ᵒC. The presence of functional group of aliphatic, aldehyde, aromatic and alkane represented for FTIR analysis. Hence, roots (wood) is potential biomass feedstock as fuel source as energy of proposed study was achieved efficiently.