Palm Oil Mill Process

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Description of Palm Oil Mill Process. 1. Delivered Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) will be weighed at the weighbridge platform. 2. Then, the FFB will be unloaded at the ramp and graded into single out unripe and rotten bunches. 3. The FFB will be loaded into the cages and then will be pushed into the sterilizers for sterilization for about 90 – 100 minutes. 4. After sterilization through automation system, the cages will be towed out and will be lifted up by the overhead crane to discharge the sterilised fruits into the autofeeder for feeding into the thresher. 5. Threshing is a process where loose fruits will be detached from the bunch. The empty bunches discharged from the thresher drum will be conveyed to the Empty Bunch Press for 2nd pressing to extract remaining oil in the empty bunch. Then the empty bunch will be conveyed into the shredder for shredding before feeding into the boiler as biomass fuel. 6. The loose fruits that detached from the bunch will be conveyed into the digesters for digestion. Digestion is a process where the mesocarp will be loosen up from the nuts for better extraction of oil during pressing. 7. (*) Then, the loose fruits will be fed into the screw press machine to extract the crude palm oil. The cake from the presses containing fibre press and nut will be conveyed and fed into the depericarper system to be separated into two components namely fibre and nuts where the press fibre will be conveyed into the boiler as the fuel. The nuts will be fed into the ripple mill for cracking process. 8. After cracking the cracked mixture which contain kernels and shell will be fed into the winnowing system to separate the shell and kernel. The dried shell will be conveyed to the boiler as fuel. The cracked mixture will be sent to claybath for kernel and shell separation. The recovered kernel will be sent to kernel silo for heating in order to

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