Free fatty acid profiles of oil derived from unripe fresh fruit bunch and its management: a case study at Sime Darby Kempas Palm Oil Mill / Normarita Saba

Palm oil is currently the major vegetable oils traded in the world. Malaysia is the second largest producer and exporter of palm oil. For hundreds of year, it forms an important ingredient in the diet of many people. The profitability of a palm oil mill is determined by its Oil Extraction Rate (OER)...

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Main Author: Saba, Normarita
Format: Student Project
Published: Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2017
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/18904/
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description Palm oil is currently the major vegetable oils traded in the world. Malaysia is the second largest producer and exporter of palm oil. For hundreds of year, it forms an important ingredient in the diet of many people. The profitability of a palm oil mill is determined by its Oil Extraction Rate (OER) and the quality of the extracted oil in terms of Free Fatty Acid (FFA), moisture, impurity content, and bleach ability. In normal daily operation, about 8% of oil palm Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) is rejected because of unripe. Consequently the OER of the mill would be affected. Thus this study was conducted to determine the FFA profiles of unripe FFB so that satisfactory economic analysis could be performed and then some management recommendation could be made. The FFA profiles were analysed using two statistical method; One Way-analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation coefficient test. ANOVA results showed FFA concentration profiles in unripe FFB were significantly affected by storage time but not by bunch weight. The Pearson correlation coefficient test on FFA concentration profiles over storage time showed moderate linear relationship (r=0.64). There was no linear relationship for the different bunch weight (r=0.03). A low FFA concentration contribute to the better quality of palm oil.
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spelling uitm-189042019-04-07T01:48:47Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/18904/ Free fatty acid profiles of oil derived from unripe fresh fruit bunch and its management: a case study at Sime Darby Kempas Palm Oil Mill / Normarita Saba Saba, Normarita Management. Industrial Management Palms Palm oil is currently the major vegetable oils traded in the world. Malaysia is the second largest producer and exporter of palm oil. For hundreds of year, it forms an important ingredient in the diet of many people. The profitability of a palm oil mill is determined by its Oil Extraction Rate (OER) and the quality of the extracted oil in terms of Free Fatty Acid (FFA), moisture, impurity content, and bleach ability. In normal daily operation, about 8% of oil palm Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) is rejected because of unripe. Consequently the OER of the mill would be affected. Thus this study was conducted to determine the FFA profiles of unripe FFB so that satisfactory economic analysis could be performed and then some management recommendation could be made. The FFA profiles were analysed using two statistical method; One Way-analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation coefficient test. ANOVA results showed FFA concentration profiles in unripe FFB were significantly affected by storage time but not by bunch weight. The Pearson correlation coefficient test on FFA concentration profiles over storage time showed moderate linear relationship (r=0.64). There was no linear relationship for the different bunch weight (r=0.03). A low FFA concentration contribute to the better quality of palm oil. Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2017 Student Project NonPeerReviewed Saba, Normarita (2017) Free fatty acid profiles of oil derived from unripe fresh fruit bunch and its management: a case study at Sime Darby Kempas Palm Oil Mill / Normarita Saba. (2017) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/18904.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Management. Industrial Management
Palms
Saba, Normarita
Free fatty acid profiles of oil derived from unripe fresh fruit bunch and its management: a case study at Sime Darby Kempas Palm Oil Mill / Normarita Saba
title Free fatty acid profiles of oil derived from unripe fresh fruit bunch and its management: a case study at Sime Darby Kempas Palm Oil Mill / Normarita Saba
title_full Free fatty acid profiles of oil derived from unripe fresh fruit bunch and its management: a case study at Sime Darby Kempas Palm Oil Mill / Normarita Saba
title_fullStr Free fatty acid profiles of oil derived from unripe fresh fruit bunch and its management: a case study at Sime Darby Kempas Palm Oil Mill / Normarita Saba
title_full_unstemmed Free fatty acid profiles of oil derived from unripe fresh fruit bunch and its management: a case study at Sime Darby Kempas Palm Oil Mill / Normarita Saba
title_short Free fatty acid profiles of oil derived from unripe fresh fruit bunch and its management: a case study at Sime Darby Kempas Palm Oil Mill / Normarita Saba
title_sort free fatty acid profiles of oil derived from unripe fresh fruit bunch and its management: a case study at sime darby kempas palm oil mill / normarita saba
topic Management. Industrial Management
Palms
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/18904/