• What is palm kernel oil extraction & refining?
  • Palm kernel oil (PKO) extraction and refining techniques involves operations such as sorting of kernels, handling, mechanical pressing, filtration of crude oil, thermal, chemical and physical treatment of crude oil to obtain desired edible oil that suits variety of applications.
  • What is palm oil extraction?
  • Extraction of oil from the palm kernels is generally separate from palm oil extraction, and will often be carried out in mills that process other oilseeds (such as groundnuts, rapeseed, cottonseed, shea nuts or copra).
  • Is oil palm a solution to a shortage of edible oil?
  • However, oil palm is the ultimate solution for the shortage of edible oil nationally due to its high productivity and low price (Chapman & Escobar, 2003 ). Hence research and development work on oil palm should be reinitiated as soon as possible.
  • Where is oil palm grown in Ethiopia?
  • This crop was introduced in Ethiopia at Gelesha in Gambella Region (Chapman & Escobar, 2003 ), Omorate and Weito in Southern region and Bako in Oromia region. Although oil palm is the ultimate crop to solve the edible oil shortage, it is not being cultivated at a large scale in Ethiopia.
  • Is edible oil refining a new sector in Ethiopia?
  • Recommendations Although edible oil refining is not a new sector in Ethiopia, there are currently very few edible oil factories with the knowledge, technical and equipment capacity, human resources, and supply chain required to expect fortification of edible oils to flourish.
  • What is oer in palm oil?
  • OER is a vital tool to measure the efficiency of a palm oil mill. The OER was generally calculated based on the mass ratio between the crude palm oil (CPO) extracted and the fresh fruit brunches processed, as shown in Eq. (1) (Corley and Tinker 2003):