scholarly journals Optimum drying time for palm nuts for efficient nut cracking in small scale oil palm fruit processing mills

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. U. Okoli
Keyword(s):  
Oil Palm ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Drying Time ◽  
Palm Fruit ◽  
Fruit Processing ◽  
Nut Cracking

Design and Development of an Integrated Small-Scale Oil Palm Fruit Processing Mill

2011 ◽  
Vol 367 ◽  
pp. 739-743
Author(s):  
C.O. Ilechie ◽  
A.O. Akii Ibhadode ◽  
B.O. Abikoye
Keyword(s):  
Vegetable Oil ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Palm Kernel ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Palm Fruit ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Oil Crops ◽  
Fruit Processing

The oil palm (elaeis guneensis) is a very important economic crop in West Africa where it is native. The fruit bunch contains 23 to 30% oil and is the highest yielding of all vegetable oil crops. Palm oil is the second most important vegetable oil in world consumption and the first to be commercialized internationally. Africa and indeed Nigerian was the world’s highest producer of palm oil prior to 1961. Today, Nigeria is the fourth largest producer after Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. One of the main reasons given for this fall is lack of efficient mechanized processing equipment for the small-scale producers who produce over 80% of the country’s palm oil. Their methods of production are labour intensive, batch, tedious, inefficient, and produce poor quality oil, have low throughput, unable to extract palm kernel alongside palm oil and so productivity is low and products (palm oil and palm kernel) lack competitiveness. This work has developed a mechanized oil palm fruit processing mill with six fully integrated systems for extracting good quality palm oil and palm kernel, while utilizing process wastes as the main source of heat energy. Each system/unit is expected to operate at the best quoted system efficiency. Tests are ongoing to determine and confirm these efficiencies.

scholarly journals YOUTHS’ INVOLVEMENT IN OIL PALM (ELAEIS GUINEENSIS) FRUIT PROCESSING ACTIVITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-399
Author(s):  
Julius Olatunde AYINDE ◽  
Michael FAMAKINWA ◽  
Babatunde Opeyemi AKEREDOLU
Keyword(s):  
Oil Palm ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Elaeis Guineensis ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Palm Fruit ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Fruit Processing ◽  
Fresh Fruit Bunches ◽  
Multistage Sampling

This study assessed the youths’ involvement in oil palm fruit processing activities in Ondo State, Nigeria. It described the socio-economic characteristics of youths involved in oil palm fruit processing activities, determined their level of involvement, examined their perception and identified constraints associated with their involvement. Multistage sampling procedure was employed to select 120 respondents from the study area. Interview schedule was employed to collect relevant data, which was analysed with SPSS software package. Descriptive statistics were used to summarise the data while inferential statistics were used to draw inference on hypothesis. The results show that majority (63.3%) were male, 95.8% had formal education with a mean age of 27.2 ± 2.7 years. Picking of fresh fruit bunches ( = 2.71), packaging ( = 2.60) and gathering of bunches ( = 2.50) were the major activities youth involved in. Higher percentage (57.9%) of the youth had favourable perception towards involvement in oil palm fruit processing activities. Lack of modern processing facilities ( =3.65) and funds/inadequate credit facilities ( = 3.65) were the prime constraints to their involvement. Number of labour (r = 0.7460; p≤0.01) and income (r = 0.601; p≤0.01) of the respondents were significantly related to youth involvement. The study concluded that youth had moderate involvement in oil palm processing activities. However, agricultural development stakeholders like government should provide adequate and functional credits facilities to these youths to encourage their involvement.

Effect of sterilization on fruit recovery in oil palm fruit processing

1988 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.O. Babatunde ◽  
M.T. Ige ◽  
G.A. Makanjuola
Keyword(s):  
Oil Palm ◽  
Palm Fruit ◽  
Fruit Processing

scholarly journals A Bench-Top Machine for Oil Palm Mesocarp Separation

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-71
Author(s):  
Nongyao Mueangdee ◽  
Suteera Prasertsan
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Coconut Oil ◽  
Disk Surface ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Palm Fruit ◽  
Fibrous Matrix ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Small Steel ◽  
Small Holes

Palm oil is rich in carotenoids and the major component of its glycerides is the saturated fatty acid palmitic. Because of its economic importance as high-yielding source of edible and technical oils, the oil palm is now grown as a plantation crop in most countries with high rainfall in tropical climates within 10 of the equator. The individual fruit ranging from 6 to 20 gm, are made up of an outer skin (the exocape), a pulp (mesocarp) containing the palm oil in a fibrous matrix; a central nut consisting of a shell (endocarp); and the kernel, which itself contains an oil, quite different to palm oil, resembling coconut oil (Poku, 2002). Nowaday in Thailand there is no small-scale suitable machine for farmers to separate palm mesocarp from palm nut. This research aims to develop a machine to separate palm fruit mesocarp to yield palm oil of better quality. The machine has four units, namely a mechanical power unit, feed unit, mesocarp milling unit, and discharge unit. The vital part is the mesocarp milling disc, which is the main report of this paper. There are three types of discs according to the surface typography under this study: 1) a disk with small holes and rectangular steel bars on the disk surface; 2) a disk with small holes, each with 1.2 centimeter diameter; 3) a disk with small holes and small steel items on the disk surface. It was found that the highest yield was obtained from the disk with small steel items and can separate mesocarp cleanly from the palm fruit.

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