Palm Oil Engineering Bulletin No.82 (Jan - Mar 2007) p25-27
Is kernel recovery getting second class treatment?
MENON, N Ravi

When people talk about palm oil mills, the product that gets most highlighted is undoubtedly the palm oil and surprisingly the second one anyone would discuss mostly happens to be biomass and not kernel. It is about time that we started giving more attention to kernel, which is an important product of palm oil processing. Moreover, palm kernel oil commands a higher price than palm oil and it is an important raw material for the oleochemical industry.





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