• What is a palm fractionation plant?
  • THE PALM fractionation plant process involves crystallisation and filtration as shown in Figure 4, where refined, bleached, deodorised palm oil (RBDPO) from the refinery is crystallised through a series of cooling steps and sent to the membrane filter press for separation to obtain olein (liquid oil) and stearin (solid fats).
  • What is a fraction of palm oil used for?
  • The various fraction of palm oil allows it to be used in different types of food products such as margarine, frying oil, and cocoa butter substitute. In fractionation, proper control of the fractionation conditions is important to produce the fractions with desirable stearin and olein quality.
  • What is a multi step dry fractionation of palm olein?
  • Multi-step dry fractionation of palm oil: the solid route, the Hard Palm Mid Fraction (HPMF) route, and the liquid route. Palm olein has become a cheap primary commodity because it is formed in high proportions in one single step.
  • Why is palm oil a fractionated oil?
  • It involves the separation of low and high melting triacylglycerol under controlled cooling conditions into olein and stearin fractions with distinct chemical and physical properties. Amongst the other vegetable oils, palm oil is one of the most fractionated oils in the past few decades mainly attributed to its semisolid properties.
  • What are the products of statolizer fractionation of palm kernel oil?
  • Consequently, the two steps Statolizer fractionation of palm kernel oil results in the following three products: a palm kernel stearin IV ¡«4 (for direct use as CBS), a palm kernel stearin IV ¡«7 (for use as CBS after full hydrogenation), and a palm kernel olein IV ¡«27.
  • How is palm oil processed?
  • There are two major processing methods known as chemical and physical refining. Palm oil is by far the most important fractionated oil in the world; crude, semi- and fully refined palm oil can be fractionated in multi-stage, giving access to several products for specific applications.