Study on the Effect of Temperature, Heating Rate and Particle Size on Palm Oil Empty Fruit Bunch Decomposition using Taguchi Method

Thermal decomposition of palm oil empty fruirt bunch was studied using thermal gravimetric analyzer(TGA). Effect of temperature ,heating rate and sample particle size on EFB decomposition rate was investigated by analyzind data from TGA. The L Taguchi method was used to design an experiment with three levels for each factor.The results obtained were then analysed using analysis of variance
(ANOVA) to know which parameter tuts the most significant effect on EFB decomposition. Percent contribution based on variance calculation shows that
temperature with 56.87 percent contribution significantly affect EFB decomposition