Biomass Demand-Resources Value Targeting

Abstract

As the global awareness toward sustainability is become one of the main focus in the development nowadays, Malaysia has started to be implementing "GREEN" practices in many industry. One of the main highlight is to develop alternative energy resources for oil and gas by using bio-resources such as palm oil. As the world leading country in palm oil production, many process waste has been generated during production, which known as palm biomass. In order to solve the problem, a Waste-To-Wealth (WTW) approach has been introduced from previous study to convert the biomass into a higher value product. However, the efficiency of the biomass management in Malaysia, especially the supply chain is still questionable. Even though many researches and integration of supply chain have been conducted, less has considered the potential value of each of the biomass available, resulting in under utilisation of certain type of biomass. A new Demand-Resources Value Targeting (DRVT) approach is introduced in this study in order to investigate the value of each of the biomass available in Malaysia in order to fully utilise the biomass available. DRVT approach will be conducted by detail study of potential value of biomass available based on market demand and its downstream product. With systematic biomass value classification, integration of supply chain based on biomass value from resources-to-biomass-to- downstream product can be developed. Therefore, a more detail integration of supply chain is expected with optimum utilisation of each potential biomass in Malaysia, which leading to a better planning and development of the country.