Process Review: Part 2

mpob_admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:13:29 +0000

Introduction: This is the second review of the Mongana Report. It is rather unfortunate that a repetition of the Mongana trials were not attempted by any organization to match the great contributions of the team of scientists who spent four years under the Cooperative Board financed by the Institute for the Advancement of Scientific Research in Industry and Agriculture (IRSIA). The research work touched on every aspect of palm oil milling process. Probably the major palm oil producers should set up a joint international oil palm research university located either in Malaysia or Indonesia to further advance the milling process that seem to be getting insufficient attention compared to downstream activities. It can be financed by all the palm oil producing nations. It will be interesting to review the comments made by the Board in the preface of the Mongana Report: ‘The Board of the Cooperative Society thought that the collation in one single text of the conclusions available from the four years of research would be of value to members. The Board also thanks the members of the research committee and their collaborators of the Mongana pilot plant and of the Brussels laboratory. Their dedication and hard work have made it possible to produce practical results of immense value’. The assignment was completed by 31 December 1955. It is worthwhile to repeat the trials using modern technology. If that is not forthcoming then the best alternative would be to document the additions or improvements.

Process Review: Part 1

mpob_admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:13:36 +0000

Introduction: The Mongana Report can be called the treasure house of knowledge that has not been challenged by anyone yet. Most of the best milling we practice have principles descended down from the research finding of the Mongana Report or the Stork Review. This article is an abridged version of the Mongana Report plus some input from the Stork Review. The readers are urged to read the full report to gain more insight in this interesting topic. If a palm oil mill engineer wants to be an expert in milling, get hold of the Mongana Report as well as Stork Review and keep reading a number of times if needed to grasp the knowledge that is presented there. In this series of articles, we shall carry out a critical review of the processes. This is particularly needed now especially when the industry is pressurised to go modern. If modernisation is carried out without a good grasp of the fundamentals, money will be wasted on projects that will not work as the fundamentals will be missing. So articles of this nature could help innovation oriented engineers who may unknowingly plunge into expensive ventures that may end up as failures. Process Review is intended to encourage the millers to review, in depth, all our milling processes so that they may stumble upon new ways of processing. For doing that we may have to probe into some pages in history.

MONGANA REPORT – PALM OIL ENGINEERING BULLETIN

Process Review: Part 2

Process Review: Part 1