The fruit of oil palm is a key part of the production of palm oil. It grows on the fresh fruit bunch (FFB) of the oil palm tree. An oil palm tree can produce about 12 fresh fruit bunches a year. Each fresh fruit bunch It weighs about 20-30Kg and contains more than 1500-2000 oil palm fruits, which are mainly picked manually. A single oil palm fruit is 4-5 cm long, 3 cm in diameter, and weighs about 10 g. The fruit is ovoid or obovoid. The ripe fruit shows an attractive ruby red color and looks like a bright red date. Split the oil palm fruit into two, and you can see that there is a dark brown hard endocarp under the orange flesh, and inside the peel is a white seed kernel, the Palm Kernel. The orange pulp and white kernel are the sources of the two most famous products of oil palm: palm oil and palm kernel oil. All FFB harvested in plantations are required to be delivered to the factory within 24 hours. Doing so can improve the yield and quality of crude palm oil (CPO). . The quality of crude palm oil depends on the integrity of the palm fruit bunches. Once the palm fruit is damaged, it will deteriorate quickly, thus affecting the quality of crude palm oil.

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1. High-temperature: After cleaning the palm fruit bunches received from the palm orchard, they are first transported into the sterilization tank for sterilization. The specific process of sterilization is to use steam to cook the palm fruit bunches at high temperature in a sterilization tank for 90-120 minutes to destroy the lipase in the pulp to prevent the free fatty acid content in the oil from increasing. Makes palm fruits soft and easy to remove.

2.: The fruit kernels of oil palm account for about 60% of the entire fruit bunch. The purpose of threshing is to separate the oil palm fruits from the fruit bunch. Mechanical threshing often uses a drum thresher. This kind of thresher has a long horizontal drum inside. There is a small channel or T-shaped knife plate in the drum. The speed is 20~25r/min. The drum basket of the thresher is equipped with a lightweight beater. When the drum rotates, , the oil palm fruit bunches first move upward, and then fall down under the action of gravity. In this way, the oil palm fruits vibrate off the fruit bunches and continue to flip along the drum until they are discharged.

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