INATEX 2019 has been held on 30 Sept -3 Oct 2019. My team and I took part in one project entitled ‘Swirler fixed bed gasifier unit’. We won Bronze Award, Alhamdulillah. Basically, gasification offers several key benefits such as renewable energy sources, hydrogen production, waste valorization, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency.  The versatility of gasification products can be used for electricity generation, liquid fuels and chemicals, localized energy production, and carbon-neutral potential. It gives cleaner combustion and reduces dependence on fossil fuels.

In specific, Malaysia projected to produce 16.8 billion tonnes of biomass annually was a big challenge for waste issue. These huge numbers eventually lead the country to come up with a specific abundance of agricultural waste. Since the world is moving towards a greener earth, the act of dumping the waste in landfills or resorting it to open burning seems irresponsible and leaving the nation with no choice but nation must be proactive to rise about the issue to avoid it happens in future continuously. The process of gasification will help to address the matter, taking palm oil as feedstock which will turn into syngas is one of the alternative solutions as alternative fuel that benefit to nation.