InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Biodiesel expert of Institut Teknoolgi Bandung (ITB), Tatang Hernas Soerawidjaja said that Indonesia could potentially have the chance to develop vegetable oil namely from palm oil.
Palm oil has the balance of saturated and saturated fat, becomes the main product and possibility to use technology in its process.
As palm oil production leader in the world, Indonesia has the chance to develop palm oil industries. But Tatang emphasized it should get advanced technology to optimize the potential.
He thought the world realized fatty acid would be the alterative for crude oil in fuel industries, and it derived from other vegetable fuels, such as, rubber seed.
He came to a conclusion that by advantaging palm oil and other vegetable oil potential, Indonesia could have the big chance to be the leader in production source of energy in vegetable oil – base to substitute crude oil.
Solving the Increasing Oil Losses without Miko
Palm oil consultant, Bonar Saragih said that palm oil industries namely the mill faced the complex challenges to solve the increasing oil extraction rate (OER). He thought, it would not be easy thing to discuss how to solve decrease oil loses.
70 percent of the income in mills derived from oil production. The other incomes could be from the shell, but in few numbers. Saragih said, oil losses could be about 1,3 to 1,7 percent.
“It would not be easy thing to directly see oil loses but this would be the parameter of mill managers to get key performance indicator (KPI),” Saragih said in the second TPOMI discussion and press conference with the theme “Updating Technology Palm Oil Mill Indonesia” that InfoSAWIT attended, Saturday (1/6/2024) in Jakarta.
Saragih continued, the average losses in every mill would not be always accurate. From 125 mills where he monitored, 35 percent were the government’s mills and the rests were the private sectors.
This raised question if taking sample procedure and report it was done right or not. But every mill would hardly conduct their own method. Saragih reminded that Miko could be a risk if oil content would be more than 1 percent. (T2)
