Transportation plays a vital role in palm oil industry supply process because it provides the opportunity to continuously create supply operational efficiency and improve supply chain performance. The objective of this paper is to optimize route…
Biodiesel is gaining prominence as a superior alternative source of energy to replace petroleum-based fuel in transportation. As of today, the biodiesel market continuous to rise up as the biofuel has been introduced to more than 60 countries…
Currently, the fuel oil for transportation and industry is produced mostly from fossil fuels. Because fossil fuels are a limited resource, biomass could be an alternative resource. Empty fruit bunch (EFB) is biomass waste from fresh fruit bunch…
The quality of crude palm oil (CPO) is generally determined by the levels of free fatty acids (FFA). This helps in balancing the level of acidity during transportation and storage processes. However, high FFA in CPO is not good for consumer health.…
This study assessed the life cycle of biodiesel production from crude palm oil at three Indonesian biodiesel plants. The LCA stage is based on ISO 14040, which determines the goal, scope, inventory, impact assessment, and interpretation of the areas…
The crude palm oil industry is an agro-industrial commodity. The global market of this industry has experienced rapid growth in recent years, such that it has a strategic value to be developed for Indonesian economy. Despite these economic benefits…
Palm oil contain tocol and betacarotene which has an antioxidant function to protect the oil from oxidation processPalm oil comes from different maturity have not been specifically determined their tocol and betacarotene content, and their relation…
Crude palm oil (CPO) is the main product of oil palm processing and is obtained through a series of unit operations. In a palm oil mill, the main unit operations involve applying saturated steam in the steriliser and digester. The high temperature…
Crude palm oil (CPO) and palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) are rich sources of bioactive compounds. PFAD is a by-product of palm oil refinery that produce palm frying oil. Physical refining of palm oil by deodorization produces palm fatty acid…
Crude Palm Oil (CPO) is one of vegetable oil obtained by extracting palm fruit mesocarp and has a red color because of the high content of beta carotene. Other bioactive ingredients in CPO include Vitamin E, squalene, and phytosterol found in the…
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation was applied to simulate the dilution of undiluted crude oil (UCO) in a dilution tank of a palm oil mill. Fluid flow and mixing characteristics were examined. Considering the mixing behavior, the mixing of…
Crude Palm Oil hydrocrcaking has been carried out over Ni/Mo ZrO2 pillared bentonite catalyst in a fixed bed reactor. Crude Palm Oil hydrocracking over Ni/Mo ZrO2 pillared bentonite catalyst formed 3 products i.e. gas, oil and coke. The oil product…
Novel bioactive nanoparticles derived from crude palm oil (CPO), palm olein, and palm stearin for use in foodstuff products were produced, and their physicochemical characteristics and stability were evaluated. The nanoparticles were prepared by…
This study aims to find out how much stearin is formed from the addition of detergent and to understand the process of separation of crude olein with crude stearin from raw material of crude palm oil (CPO). Using a detergent fractionation system,…
Crude oil palm biomass (OPB) residue is an important source of lignocellulose and could be transformed into biofuels through thermochemical conversion for heat and power in CHP plants or act as sustainable reinforcement in the biocomposite industry.…
Bio jet fuel becomes one of the feasible solutions for jet fuel inadequate supply in Indonesia. However, study in this field by far has been limited. In this study, bio jet fuel was synthesized from Crude Palm Oil (CPO) by Hydroprocessed Esters and…
Palm oil is edible oil which extracted from the pulp of fruit oil palms. The use of this oil is mainly for cooking purposes. In Indonesia, crude palm oil production has a huge role for Indonesia's economics, because Indonesia is the largest crude…
Malaysia and Indonesia are the largest palm oil producers worldwide. In palm oil production, approximately one tonne of empty fruit bunch (EFB) will be generated as waste for every one tonne of palm oil produced. Currently, these fresh EFB are still…
Palm oil is the vegetable oil refined and modified in the largest amount. In this study, we present the effect of wet fractionation and hydrogenation of RBD palm oil on the removal of 3-MCPD and glycidyl esters. Fractionated palmstearins had…
Palm oil market on Indonesia started growing rapidly. But, palm oil production on Indonesia still far from effective. With an automatic controller system nowadays has many effects on various field. On palm oil processing field, one of factor that…
Palm oil market on Indonesia started growing rapidly. But, palm oil production on Indonesia still far from effective. With an automatic controller system nowadays has many effects on various field. On palm oil processing field, one of factor that…
The continuous production of a diesel-like biofuel from palm oil was evaluated by coupling two reactions stages in series, pre-hydrogenation with a Ni/Al2O3 catalyst at 250 °C and LHSV of 2 h−1, followed by deoxygenation with a sulfided Ni–Mo/Al2O3…
Ghanaian consumers’ confidence and trust in palm oil have become weak over the past few years. This research seeks to evaluate the quality and safety (Sudan adulteration) parameters of palm oil samples from seven major cities in Ghana using a…
Understanding oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) value chain is important to project it not only as a commodity but also as a sustainable source for biofuel (first- and second-generation) deployment. The tree owns only ~10% palm oil with the rest as…
Due to rapid expansion of palm oil industries, oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) frond has become one of the most abundant agricultural residues for sustainable fermentation feedstock. This study investigated the potential usage of soluble products…
Bacillus sp. GY19 was immobilized on chitosan to increase cell density and facilitate lipopeptide production. Palm oil was added to a waste glycerol based medium as precursor for the lipopeptides. The immobilized cells could be reused in stirred tank…
Malaysia and Indonesia are the largest palm oil producers worldwide. In palm oil production, approximately one tonne of empty fruit bunch (EFB) will be generated as waste for every one tonne of palm oil produced. Currently, these fresh EFB are still…
Palm oil is the vegetable oil refined and modified in the largest amount. In this study, we present the effect of wet fractionation and hydrogenation of RBD palm oil on the removal of 3-MCPD and glycidyl esters. Fractionated palmstearins had…
Bio-oil is a highly valuable product derived from biomass pyrolysis which could be used in various downstream applications upon appropriate upgrading and refining. Extraction and fractionation are two promising methods to upgrade bio-oil by…
Currently the extraction of valuable components from oils is of growing interest. Palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) is a by-product from palm oil refining process which contains valuable minor components. This work investigated the extraction and…
Supercritical water treatment (380C/100 MPa/8 s) was applied to extractive-free oil palm trunk and sapwood portion of Japanese beech and their fractionated products were comparatively characterized, for water-soluble portion and water-insoluble…
The physicochemical properties of palm olein fractions obtained by dry fractionation were studied. Chromatographic purification was applied to separate diacylglycerol from palm olein fractions without changing the triacylglycerol composition, and the…
In order to investigate the potential for efficient utilization of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), supercritical water treatment (at 380C and 100 MPa for 8 s) was applied to fractionate extractives-free samples into water-soluble portion and…
In the present work, the physical and chemical characteristics of the fruit of the oily palm coming from the river basin of the Maniti (Region Loreto - Peru) were studied. Also, the fractionation of the palm oil and the interesterification of…
Palm oil (olein) is one of the primary finished products produced from palm fruits in West Kalimantan Province. Olein or known as cooking oil was one of the primary downstream products produced from crude palm oil through refinery and fractionation…
Miscanthus sinensis L. was fractionated by different reagents (ethanol, soda and soda-ethanol) in order to obtain cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin. Characterization of original M. sinensis fibres (66.6% holocellulose, 36.1% -cellulose, and 15.5%…
In this work, the fractionation of fatty acids from palm oil deodorizer distillates, a by-product of the physical refining process of palm oil, has been investigated in a laboratory scale countercurrent packed column with supercritical CO2 as…
Influence of operational variables in the EFB pulping [acetic acid (60-95%), hydrochloric acid (0.10-0.25%) and time (60-180. min)], on the yield, drainability or beating grade, Kappa number, lignin and viscosity of pulps was studied. By using a…
With the increase in palm oil production, the dry fractionation process has also gained in importance, both in comparison with other fractionation processes and in terms of the number of tonnes per annum. This has been assisted by the development of…
This study was conducted to investigate on the effect of different sampling regions of palm-refined oils and fats on the 2- and 3-monochloropropanediol fatty acid esters (MCPDE) and glycidol fatty acid esters (GE) levels. The American Oil Chemists…
Purpose: The aims of this research were to extract sugar-based products from oil palm biomass, oil palm fronds (OPFs) and oil palm fruit pressed fibers (FPFs) via a hydrothermal process using accelerated solvent extraction and to identify the sugar…
In this paper, we investigated the fractional distillation on bench scale of four organic liquid products (OLPs) obtained by thermal-catalytic cracking of crude palm oil using 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% (w/w) sodium carbonate as the catalyst. The main…
Approximately 900 tonne of crude palm oil (CPO) underwent washing using 5 to 10% hot water (90 to 95) at a palm oil mill. The aim of the CPO washing was to eliminate and/or reduce total chlorine content present in the conventional CPO, as it is known…
Ganoderma boninense, the causal of basal stem rot (BSR) has already caused a major loss of revenue in Indonesia oil palm industry. Many methods were used to control G. boninense attacks. Phenolic compounds could be accumulated when G. boninense…