Miling & Processing
Mission
Enhance palm oil milling efficiency and sustainability.
Objectives
- To envelope innovative, efficient and sustainable palm oil processing technology.
- To address current issues on environment pollution, regulation compliance and quality requirement.
- To explore value addition on palm phytonutrient.
Strategic Research Areas
Environmental Monitoring & Compliance
- Performance evaluation of various air pollution control technology for particulate matter.
- Zero Discharge Technology performance verification.
- Data base establishment on effluent treatment system performance for odour, colour reduction and BOD20 ppm compliance.
- Establish data collection of odour emission level at source and boundary residential area.
- Establish odour management plan guideline with DOE to improve air quality.
Productivity Improvement
- Nut-free mesocarp oil extraction process (MICRONES) optimization.
- Establish data on effect of using FFB trash removal system on CPO recovery, chloride mitigation and quality enhancement.
Labour Dependent/ Automation
- Proof of concept development for automate FFB ripeness grading system based on digital image and NIR.
- To venture on IR 4.0 and artificial intelligence (AI) in CPO processing for plant wide automation.
Downstream Value Addition
- Minor valuable component recovery using green technology.
- 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
