renewable energy – OIL PALM BULLETIN

Availability and potential of biomass resources from the Malaysian palm oil industry for generating renewable energy

Malaysia in 2006 produced 15.88 million tonnes of crude palm oil and 1.95 million tonnes of palm kernel oil. In the process of extracting these oils, a voluminous amount of biomass is simultaneously produced from the mills and also from the field. The biomass from the mills include empty fruit bunches, mesocarp fibre, palm kernel […]

March 29, 2020

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Biogas Capture – A Means of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Palm Oil Mill Effluent

Oil palm – being the economic backbone of Malaysia – provides not just palm oil as the main commodity but also many other forms of by-products, namely oil palm trunks, fronds, palm kernel shell, mesocarp fiber, empty fruit bunches and palm oil mill effluent (POME), all of which can be transformed into valueadded products for […]

March 29, 2020

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