Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
In today’s market economy, especially with the advancement of information technology (IT) and information and communication technology (ICT), new developments in technology are transmitted fast. However, the technology is normally adopted when the benefits exceed costs. In demonstrating that such advances are for the benefit of sustaining the oil palm industry, new knowledge is constantly […]
A new harvesting pole (Hi-Reach), specifically designed for tall palms trees (>,12 m high),was developed and tested. It comprised three sections, namely, the basal, middle and top sections, which were joined through a telescopic method to make up a total length of 15 m. The pole was oval with cross-sectional diameters of the major and […]
Conventionally the analytical techniques used to analyse the quality parameters of oils and fats are by wet chemical methods that involve titration. Normally these chemical techniques require large amount of chemicals and reagents which may be unfriendly to the environment and hazardous to health. To overcome the problem, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy is considered the […]
Hybrid composite boards were manufactured from oil palm trunk (OPT), frond (OPF), empty fruit bunch (EFB) and polyethylene. Four different plastics content of 0%, 5%, 12% and 20% were used in this study. The boards were manufactured to target density of 850 kg m-3. Urea formaldehyde (UF) adhesive was used as a binder at resin […]
Material safety data sheets (MSDS) are documents designed to provide both users and workers with the proper procedures for handling or working with those materials. Generally, it has been presumed that these documents are only relevant to substances that are considered rather dangerous. However, there were recently some requests for MSDS of palm oil and […]
The chemical composition of pulp is the basis for many paper properties. This chemical composition can be modified or changed by chemical pulping. In this work, the chemical compositions of four types of alkaline pulp made from oil palm empty fruit bunches were studied. The empty fruit bunches were cooked in soda, soda-AQ, kraft and […]
The marked increase in oil palm hectarage in Sabah is largely due to the large tracts of land made available for oil palm planting. Out of the approximately one million hectares of land planted with oil palm, about 4246 ha are on coral soils located at FELDA Sahabat 23 and 24. These soils, derived from […]
Palm stearin (POs), sunflower oil (SFO) and palm kernel olein (PKOo) were blended in various ratios and subjected to chemical interesterification (CIE). Fatty acid composition, triacylglycerol (TAG) composition, solid fat content (SFC) and polymorphic behaviour of the interesterified blends were analysed and compared with the properties of the unreacted blends. Upon CIE, extensive rearrangement of […]