palm oil

From the offloading bay, the FFB fall in cages on a rail system. Thesecages are pulled into a horizontal steriliser, where during a 90minutes steaming process, the fruits are sterilised to prevent furtheracidification of the oil.

The cages with sterilised fruitbunches are emptied in a bunch hopper, here the fruits are separatedfrom the bunches. Thereafter the loose fruits are conveyed to adigester and then to a screw press. At the press, the palm oil ispressed out of the fruits. The oil goes to the de-sanding and decantingtanks, while cake, also containing the palm nuts, is conveyed to thepalm kernel recovery station.

The empty fruit bunches (EFB) are recycled in the plantation.

Whenthe oil leaves the screw press it contains water, sand and impurities.During a process of static de-sanding and decanting, most of theimpurities in the oil are removed in a centrifugal oil purifier. Thelast traces of oil in the effluent are recovered in a centrifugalsludge separator.

Now the crude palm oil (CPO) is ready forstorage and further processing in the refinery and fractionation plant.There it is processed into refined bleached deodorised oil (RBDO) andpalm fatty acid distillate (PFAD). RBDO is then fractionated into palmolein and stearin.

palm oil is used in the making of so many product, and also use for cooking.