Miling & Processing

Mission

Enhance palm oil milling efficiency and sustainability.

Objectives

  1. To envelope innovative, efficient and sustainable palm oil processing technology.
  2. To address current issues on environment pollution, regulation compliance and quality requirement.
  3. To explore value addition on palm phytonutrient.

Strategic Research Areas

Environmental Monitoring & Compliance

  1. Performance evaluation of various air pollution control technology for particulate matter.
  2. Zero Discharge Technology performance verification.
  3. Data base establishment on effluent treatment system performance for  odour, colour reduction and BOD20 ppm compliance.
  4. Establish data collection of odour emission level at source and boundary residential area.
  5. Establish odour management plan guideline with DOE to improve air quality.

Productivity Improvement

  1. Nut-free mesocarp oil extraction process (MICRONES) optimization.
  2. Establish data on effect of using FFB trash removal system on CPO recovery, chloride mitigation and quality enhancement.

Labour Dependent/ Automation

  1. Proof of concept development for automate FFB ripeness grading system based on digital image and NIR.
  2. To venture on IR 4.0 and artificial intelligence (AI) in CPO processing for plant wide automation.

Downstream Value Addition

  1. Minor valuable component recovery using green technology.
  2. Establish database on POME properties due to development of new milling technologies
Milling & Waste Management Technology Group
Objective
  • To adopt technologies in milling process for efficiency improvement and environmental conservation towards circular economy.
Downstream Engineering & Processing Group
Objective
  • To explore novel and modern technologies for the processing of palm  value added products