From Palm Frond to Electricity
Professor Herri Susanto designed and built a machine that generates electricity using oil palm fronds as fuel through a gasification process. His practical technique yields clean gas, free of tar contamination.
March 2, 2011
MISNAN, a transmigrant in Sido Mukti village, Pangkalan Kuras subdistrict, Pelalawan regency, Riau, has had a new task for the past two weeks. Every day, he has had to ensure that 20 oil palm fronds, cleaned of their remaining leaves, are collected in front of his house before 2pm. The fronds, which previously served no practical use at all, would then be picked up by a car and brought to an open field at one corner of the village.
There, a mach
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