Recovery of palm oil and valuable material from oil palm empty fruit bunch by sub-critical water

• Main Authors: Ahmad Kurnin, Nor Azrin, Ismail, Mohd Halim Shah, Yoshida, Hiroyuki, Siajam, Shamsul Izhar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan Oil Chemists' Society 2016
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48552/1/Recovery%20of%20palm%20oil%20and%20valuable%20material%20from%20oil%20palm%20empty%20fruit%20bunch%20by%20sub-critical%20water.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48552/; https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jos/65/4/65_ess15209/_article

Oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) is one of the solid wastes produced in huge volume by palm oil mill. Whilst it still contains valuable oil, approximately 22.6 million tons is generated annually and treated as solid waste. In this work, sub-critical water (sub-cw) was used to extract oil, sugar and...