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MOU signed to avoid "wasting the waste" in Malaysia

A Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) has been signed by four international technologists to work in collaboration to develop biomass pre-treatment and power generation solutions for Malaysia industries, thereby ensuring value is created from otherwise waste biomass.
MOU signed to avoid "wasting the waste" in Malaysia

C.H.E. Metal Works Sdn Bhd (the CHE Group) has announced a strategic partnership with ERK Eckrohrkessel GmbH (ERK), The Fitzpatrick Company (Fitzpatrick) and Torftech Ltd (Torftech) to intensifying cooperation between the four engineering companies to develop biomass pre-treatment and power generation equipment and processes.

The agreement was made official through the signing of a MOU on 8 May 2012 at the EU-Asia Biomass Best Practices and Business Partnering Conference 2012 held in Putra World Trade Center, Kuala Lumpur.

The signing was also witnessed by YB Dato Sri Peter Chin Fah Kui (Malaysia’s Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water), Dato Leong Kin Mun (Biomass SP Technical Advisor), Tan Sri Datuk Dr. Ahmad Zaharudin Idrus (Biomass SP Chairman), Tan Sri Datuk Dr. Ahmad Tajuddin Ali, (Joint Chairman ,Industry, Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology, MIGHT) and H.E. Vincent Picket, (Ambassador and Head of the European Union Delegation to Malaysia).

According to CHE, the next step is to construct a pilot plant to assist the local market to perform trials on the way to full commercialisation. “The developing equipments [sic] will be locally manufactured by CHE Group and the local industries will be able to consider investing the advanced European technologies with lower cost as compare to deliver all the way from Europe,” explains Chek C.C. Chong, Business Director and spokeperson of the CHE Group. “There are some customers who prefer to run trial to process their Biomass to confirm the performance of the equipments [sic] before investing and very soon, CHE Group will be able to run trial for them locally. Our trial centre with capacity of 800Kg/Hr will target to be ready in 4th quarter this year.”

The technologies that the CHE Group is developing together with its partners are: biomass powder processing, compaction, gasification, torrefaction and high-pressure, single drum water tube boilers. CHE Group is also working together with a local academy to perform feasibility and lab analysis to develop the complete biomass pre-treatment and power generation plant.

The local academy which specialises in palm oil will work together with the CHE Group and the technologists to develop the various equipment and processes. “This local academy with whom we are working closely now, is the right candidate to work with. In the past, they have already done intensive researches and trials in processing palm biomasses and with the available findings, we are able to work productively to realise our goals,” says Chek CC Chong. “One of the goals is that the CHE Group will develop and manufacture locally made products and export to other countries. Malaysia is the 2nd largest Palm Oil producer in the world after Indonesia and with the accessibility of the abundant waste generated from the Palm Oil Industries, our research and development to achieve world class equipments [sic] and technologies will be more efficient as compare to other countries who do not have the palm waste.”

Advanced biomass pre-treatment and power generation technology enables biomass to be converted into fuel that can be then used to generate electricity to run processing plants and sell to the national grid.

This is a self-sustained processing plant and other than producing energy fuel like fuel pellets and torrefied pellets, is able to produce “bioresin” as a raw material for biochemical production. This “hybrid concept” will enable the processing plant to generate “multiple value-added bioproducts with a single feed biomass,” explains the company.

“Biomass is no longer consider as waste and many [are] still unaware about the value that biomass can generate. We hope that we can serve the industries through sharing of our knowledge and know how about how to convert the biomass into value-added products and therefore start to embark into [sic] the biomass business to create a more sustainable environment control, as CHE always says: ‘Don‟t Waste The Waste’,”concludes Chek CC Chong.

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