Palm Oil Processing

Palm oil processing is not as easy as oil extraction from other oil bearing materials. The entire process starts with sorting of the fruits as soon as they arrive in the palm oil processing plant. Once the low quality fruits have been sorted from the good fruits, the bad ones are disposed while the good ones move to the next stage. When these fruits reach the conveyer system, they are split into smaller pieces before being relayed to a large cage for sterilization. At this stage, all the contaminants are ridden of the fruits and then passed on to a rotating threshing drum.

The threshing drum aids in the separation of the fruit from the husks. Once this separation is complete, the remnant moves to the digesters and eventually to the presser which is responsible with the extraction of the crude palm oil (CPO) from the fruit. Clarification and drying are the final processes that the crude oil will be subjected to before it is ready for transportation to a palm oil refinery. It is essential to understand each of these steps as well as the various machines that are used at each stage. Once you omit or ignore any of the main stages, you may not produce the desired palm oil.