Removal of oil from oil palm empty fruit bunches spikelet using steam and water processes

The development of new low cost technologies to increase the oil recovery in the palm oil mill especially from the palm oil wastes has been an important goal for the industry to increase oil extraction performance. In addition to the crude palm oil (CPO) production, high amount of wastes are annuall...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gomez, Javier Hernando Chavarro
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Palm oil industry Palm oil - Composition
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/64391/1/FK%202014%20149IR.pdf
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

id	my-upm-ir.64391
record_format	uketd_dc
spelling	my-upm-ir.643912018-06-13T00:29:04Z Removal of oil from oil palm empty fruit bunches spikelet using steam and water processes 2014-12 Gomez, Javier Hernando Chavarro The development of new low cost technologies to increase the oil recovery in the palm oil mill especially from the palm oil wastes has been an important goal for the industry to increase oil extraction performance. In addition to the crude palm oil (CPO) production, high amount of wastes are annually generated at the mill with remainedCPO attached to them. The empty fruit bunches (EFB) is the largest solid wastes produced and high amount of oil it is impregnated due to mechanical processes during CPO extraction. However, the EFB is thrown in the field without further processing. Initially, the EFB was analyzedto determine initial oil content.Then, the detection and identification of oil were performed using Sudan Red to achieve an insightful view of oil that located inside and on the surface of EFBspikelet. The study shows that the oil mainly located on the surface of spikelet, about 73.73  0.05 % from total residual oil. Furthermore, the comparison of oil recovery efficiency among processes using saturated steam, hot water, combined steam-water, combined water-steam and high pressure spray water and steam was carried out. As a result of this work, two methods showed the best oil extraction yield, indicating that over 88% and 92% of oil could be removed from theEFB spikelet by hydro solvent assisted extraction (HYSASE) and high pressure fluid spray system (HPFSS), respectively. Finally, the quality of oil that obtained by HYSASE and HPFSS was compared with the quality of oil that obtained from shredded and pressed EFB, indicating almost similar oil quality, except for PV, with the advantage that more oil could be recovered.The recovered residual oil probably is not suitable as edible oil on its own or to be blended with CPO obtained from the main process at the palm oil mill. However, it has potential to be used as a feedstock for biodiesel, bio-lubricant production and other applications. Thus, these methods provide non-chemical, environmental friendly and novel processes of residual CPO recovery from EFB. Palm oil industry Palm oil - Composition 2014-12 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/64391/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/64391/1/FK%202014%20149IR.pdf text en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Palm oil industry Palm oil - Composition
institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
collection	PSAS Institutional Repository
language	English
topic	Palm oil industry Palm oil - Composition
spellingShingle	Palm oil industry Palm oil - Composition Gomez, Javier Hernando Chavarro Removal of oil from oil palm empty fruit bunches spikelet using steam and water processes
description	The development of new low cost technologies to increase the oil recovery in the palm oil mill especially from the palm oil wastes has been an important goal for the industry to increase oil extraction performance. In addition to the crude palm oil (CPO) production, high amount of wastes are annually generated at the mill with remainedCPO attached to them. The empty fruit bunches (EFB) is the largest solid wastes produced and high amount of oil it is impregnated due to mechanical processes during CPO extraction. However, the EFB is thrown in the field without further processing. Initially, the EFB was analyzedto determine initial oil content.Then, the detection and identification of oil were performed using Sudan Red to achieve an insightful view of oil that located inside and on the surface of EFBspikelet. The study shows that the oil mainly located on the surface of spikelet, about 73.73  0.05 % from total residual oil. Furthermore, the comparison of oil recovery efficiency among processes using saturated steam, hot water, combined steam-water, combined water-steam and high pressure spray water and steam was carried out. As a result of this work, two methods showed the best oil extraction yield, indicating that over 88% and 92% of oil could be removed from theEFB spikelet by hydro solvent assisted extraction (HYSASE) and high pressure fluid spray system (HPFSS), respectively. Finally, the quality of oil that obtained by HYSASE and HPFSS was compared with the quality of oil that obtained from shredded and pressed EFB, indicating almost similar oil quality, except for PV, with the advantage that more oil could be recovered.The recovered residual oil probably is not suitable as edible oil on its own or to be blended with CPO obtained from the main process at the palm oil mill. However, it has potential to be used as a feedstock for biodiesel, bio-lubricant production and other applications. Thus, these methods provide non-chemical, environmental friendly and novel processes of residual CPO recovery from EFB.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Gomez, Javier Hernando Chavarro
author_facet	Gomez, Javier Hernando Chavarro
author_sort	Gomez, Javier Hernando Chavarro
title	Removal of oil from oil palm empty fruit bunches spikelet using steam and water processes
title_short	Removal of oil from oil palm empty fruit bunches spikelet using steam and water processes
title_full	Removal of oil from oil palm empty fruit bunches spikelet using steam and water processes
title_fullStr	Removal of oil from oil palm empty fruit bunches spikelet using steam and water processes
title_full_unstemmed	Removal of oil from oil palm empty fruit bunches spikelet using steam and water processes
title_sort	removal of oil from oil palm empty fruit bunches spikelet using steam and water processes
granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate	2014
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/64391/1/FK%202014%20149IR.pdf
_version_	1747812295699857408

Removal of oil from oil palm empty fruit bunches spikelet using steam and water processes

Similar Items