palm oil Articles
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Desalination Project for Indonesia - Case Study
Project Overview: Capacity: 2x1200M3/Day, Technology: MMF+SW+BW+MB, Client: Palm Oil Company, Location: Indonesia. ...
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Green economy with sustainable value chains
From habitat to home – responsible agro-commodity governance – palm oil CHALLENGE: Agricultural output is expected to double and resource efficiency increase tenfold in the coming decades. Only a rapid transformation in the way products and services are produced and consumed will ensure the continued delivery of essential ecosystem services provided by a healthy environment while ...
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Cadbury Schweppes, Bristol - Case Study
Customer: CADBURY SCHWEPPES Location: Bristol, UK Installation Date: 10th December 2005 Industry Sector: Manufacture of chocolate confectionary Pre-install Issues: The particular issue for this site was the contamination of waste water with Palm Oil used in the production process. The oil was passing through the conventional grease traps and contaminating the waste water plant. The ...
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Detection of Chlorine in Palm Oil
Margarine, spreads, chocolate, detergents, cosmetics, biofuels and much, much more - palm oil simply everywhere and in almost everything nowadays. Hardly any other natural product is used as widely for industrial production as this tropical oil. Palm oil - or palm fat as it is also called - is relatively inexpensive to produce. The yield per area is exceptionally high compared to similar oil ...
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A meta analytic review of life cycle assessment and flow analyses studies of palm oil biodiesel
This work reviews and performs a meta‐analysis of the recent Life Cycle Assessment and flow analyses studies palm oil biodiesel. The best available data and information are extracted, summarized and discussed. Most studies found palm oil biodiesel would produce positive energy balance with a range of energy ratio between 2.27 and 4.81 with net energy production of 112 GJ ha−1yr−1. With the ...
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Greenhouse gas reduction through social inclusion in Brazil
With the objective to offer contributions to resolve ecological, social and economic problems in Amazonia, Brazil's sustainable production of palm oil legislation has the specific goal of mobilising public administrations, private business, social aid agencies and family farmers with the following overall objectives: create employment and increase income by means of palm cultivation; reforest ...
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Project - Palm Oil Wastewater Treatment with i-MBR system
PHILOS i-MBR system Installation place: East Aisia Application: Palm Oil Wastewater Treatment Delivery date: 2013 Capacity: ...
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Greenhouse gas emissions from the production and use of palm methyl ester in Thailand
This study compares the life cycle Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from Palm Methyl Ester (PME) and conventional diesel (diesel hereinafter) used for transportation in Thailand. The life cycle GHG emissions from the production and use of PME were found to be 79.5% less than that from diesel production and use. Hence, a fuel switch from diesel to PME, according to the Thai government's plan of ...
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Next steps for RSPO in relation
The new RSPO (April 2013) Principles and Criteria (P&C) require the avoidance of new plantation developments on peatlands and provide important guidance for addressing the issues related to the production of palm oil on peat. The new P&C acknowledge that drainage of peatlands results in greenhouse gas emissions and peat soil subsidence, which in turn create fl ooding problems. The new ...
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Hill Biscuits clear their lines with Fatstrippa - Case Study
Customer: HILL BISCUITS LTD Location: Ashton under Lyme, Lancashire, UK Installation Date: 16th May 2009 Industry Sector: Biscuit manufacture Pre-install Issues: The client has experienced drainage issues, from a combination of solidified palm oil and flour, for a considerable time; the consequent drain jetting and waste removal, have been a persistant and unnecessary cost to the ...
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Cadbury Schweppes - Case Study
The effluent now initially treated by the Forbuster system efficiently removes the solid debris before de-oiling the effluent. Wedge wire screen now works as designed to remove fine solids and carbon from the ovens. All downstream processes operating at peak efficiencies. Site is now compliant with the effluent standards required, odor was dispelled and sludge haulage costs significantly reduced. ...
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3 Ways to Achieve Zero Tropical Deforestation by 2020
As the crisis of tropical deforestation reaches a new level of urgency due to forest fires raging in Indonesia, an important question is how can the world satisfy the growing demand for forest products while still preserving forest ecosystems? This week, some of the world’s largest companies will join U.S. and Indonesian government officials in Jakarta at the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 ...
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Hill Biscuits, Ltd. - Case Study
Wastewater issues from solidified palm oil combined with flour resulting in high operating costs and surcharges. Plant had conventional grease trap to capture the fat. The two sections of the existing grease trap were isolated and the primary section utilised as the influent source via a dip tube. A 100 GPM Fogbuster Jr, with automated control system was installed with a low shear Moyno pump for ...
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What’s the most important measure of success?
As 2014 comes to a close and we prepare to celebrate Ensia’s second anniversary this coming February, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the journey we’ve been on over these past couple of years. In my role as Ensia’s director, I often meet with potential partners, supporters, thought leaders and others. More often than not, one of the first questions I’m asked is, ...
By Ensia
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Bankers, what are the risks of your peatland investments?
The world’s increasing demand for palm oil and pulp wood for paper production attracts the private sector to invest more and more in these businesses in Indonesia and Malaysia. But are banks, the creditors of these businesses, aware of the risks of their investments in palm oil and pulp wood plantations when these are developed on peatlands? Oil palm and pulp wood cultivation on peatlands ...
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A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2015
This paper presents the results of our sixth annual horizon scan, which aims to identify phenomena that may have substantial effects on the global environment, but are not widely known or well understood. A group of professional horizon scanners, researchers, practitioners, and a journalist identified 15 topics via an iterative, Delphi-like process. Wetlands International was part of the horizon ...
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Lipid profile characterization of wastewaters from different origins
Lipids in wastewaters are potential raw material for renewable diesel, but may complicate biological treatment of wastewaters. The lipid composition of palm oil mill effluent (POME), chemithermomechanical pulp mill (CTMP) wastewater and municipal wastewater (MWW) was studied with a combination of thin-layer chromatography and nuclear magnetic resonance. Gravimetrically determined content of ...
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An integrated UMAS for POME treatment
The direct discharge of palm oil mill effluent (POME) wastewater causes serious environmental hazards due to its high chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biochemical oxygen demand. This paper proposes a new approach for integrated technology of ultrasonic membrane for a POME treatment. The paper evaluated the economic viability based on the changes of the new design of ultrasonic membrane ...
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Fire alerts spike in Indonesia as risk of haze crisis returns
Bacalah posting blog dalam Bahasa Indonesia di sini Fires are flaring up once more on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Media reports in the region indicate that the resulting smog has already reached unhealthy levels over parts of Indonesia and Malaysia. New fire alert data from NASA, compiled by WRI as part of an ongoing series of analysis, show a total of 198 high-confidence fire alerts ...
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Polishing of treated palm oil mill effluent (POME) from ponding system by electrocoagulation process
As the ponding system used to treat palm oil mill effluent (POME) frequently fails to satisfy the discharge standard in Malaysia, the present study aimed to resolve this problem using an optimized electrocoagulation process. Thus, a central composite design (CCD) module in response surface methodology was employed to optimize the interactions of process variables, namely current density, ...
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