• How to reduce building cost in palm oil processing plant?
  • One design alternative that is possible to minimize the building cost in Palm Oil Processing Plant is to replace Vertical Sterilizers with a 10 tons capacity of fresh fruit bunches of 4 units with a Vertical Sterilizer with a 15 tons capacity of 3 units.
  • Why do we need a vertical sterilizer for oil palm fruit processing?
  • Because of the poor economy in Africa and Nigeria in particular, large-scale mill remain unaffordable. Hence to enhance productivity of oil palm, a vertical sterilizer was developed as one of the unit operations of a synchronized medium-scale oil palm fruit processing mill.
  • How to improve productivity of oil palm fruit processing mill?
  • Hence to enhance productivity of oil palm, a vertical sterilizer was developed as one of the unit operations of a synchronized medium-scale oil palm fruit processing mill. In this synchronized mill, fresh oil palm fruits were sterilized using developed sterilizer (pressure vessel) that was coupled with fire-in-tube boiler.
  • How do palm oil mills work?
  • It all begins with the transportation of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from plantation sites to the palm oil mills. The milling operation includes several stages, namely reception, sterilization, threshing, digestion and pressing, clarification and purification, and kernel recovery.
  • What types of sterilizers are used in palm oil mills?
  • Various types of sterilizers are commonly used in palm oil mills, including horizontal batch sterilizers, vertical batch sterilizers, and continuous sterilizers. Each type has specific characteristics that influence its operation, although the fundamental principles remain consistent (Table 1).
  • How are oil palm fruits sterilized?
  • In this small-scale method oil palm fruits are sterilized using unpressurize vessel without instrumentation and control devices for parameters regulation and monitoring. Because of the poor economy in Africa and Nigeria in particular, large-scale mill remain unaffordable.