The Processing Of Palm Oil

A unique feature of the oil palm is that it produces two types of oil - palm oil from
the fresh of the fruit, and palm kernel oil from the seed or kernel. For every 10 tonnes of palm oil, about 1 tonne of palm kernel oil is also obtained. Several processing operations are used to produce the finished palm oil that meets the users' requirements.

palm oil

The first step in processing is at the mill, where the crude palm oil is extracted from
the fruit.
The crude palm oil may be further refined to get a wide range of palm products of
specified quality.
Palm oil may also be fractionated, using simple crystallization and separation processes to obtain solid (stearin) and liquid (olein) fractions of various melting characteristics.The different properties of the fractions make them suitable for a variety of food and non-food products.