Pyrolysis of Palm-oil Empty Fruit Brunch for Hydrogen Production Over Fe-doped Morphology Dependent NiO Nanomaterial

After successfully synthesized the nickel oxide catalyst with the hexagonal
crystal shape and also the doping of different weight percent of iron, characterization
of the catalyst has been done using TEM, FSEM, BET and etc. The effectiveness of
the synthesized catalyst was demonstrated through the conversion of empty fruit
brunches (EFB) into bio oil with presence of 5 different catalyst NiO, 1 wt%, 5 wt%,
10 wt% Fe-doped nickel oxide and one experiment without catalyst
The catalytic slow pyrolysis method was used to determine and predict the
optimum weight percent of Iron doped with nickel oxide at the conditions of 60
ml/min of nitrogen flow rate, temperature of 400oC. The results show the effects of
the iron in producing hydrogen in the pyrolysis reaction, where the highest hydrogen
amount produces where with 5 wt% Fe-NiO the optimum selectivity of hydrogen was
0.65 %. On the other hand the liquid yield of 39.80 wt% was obtained from the 10
wt% Fe-NiO catalyst.