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R&D in adsoption and catalyst characterisation has begun to gain interest in material science. With the development of advanced carbon technology, products like activated carbon, carbon molecular sieve, carbon fuel cell and nano-carbon can be made from lignocellulosic materials; including oil palm biomass. Activated carbon (AC) is a form of carbon that has been processed … Read more

Solid fat content (SFC) determination is of prime importance in food processing and product development of fats and fat-based products as their melting profiles need to be characterised. Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (pNMR) is widely used for the measurement of SFC in oils and fats determination by TD-NMR (Time-Domain NMR) has long been recognised as … Read more

Malaysia has conducted research on renewable fuel. Methyl ester, derived from palm oil through an esterification process, has proven to be suitable for unmodified diesel engines. Hence, a test on this fuel or its derivative is a prerequisite before it can be fully used in the engine. Fuel testings are normally required to meet increasing … Read more

Information technology (IT) in land related matters comprises the geographic information system (GIS), global positioning system (GPS) and remote sensing (RS). GIS is a computer-based system that helps to manipulate georeferenced data. It involves the entering, storing, manipulating, analysing and displaying of geographic or spatial data (Congalton and Green, 1992). IT provides the quickest and … Read more

The understanding of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the oil palm environment have increased considerably over the last decade. Three of the most important GHG are nitrous dioxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). A number of potential strategirs has been formulated to reduce such emissions. The chamber method is commonly used to measure … Read more

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an analytical tool that is used to evaluate the impact to ecosystem quality, resources and human health along the whole life cycle of a product. In the case of palm oil production, LCA captures these effects at the various stages, which cover the production of oil palm seedlisings plantations, the … Read more

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool to evaluate the environmental burdens associated with a product, process or activity by identifying and quantifying the energy and materials used and the wastes released to the environment, to assess the impact of those energy and materials used and released to the environment, and to identify and evaluate … Read more

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool to evaluate the environmental burdens associated with a product, process or activity by identifying and quantifying the energy and materials used and the wastes released to the environment, to assess the impact of those energy and materials used and released to the environment, and to identify and evaluate … Read more

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the most holistic and comprehensive method which can be used in assessing the environmental burden and impact resulting from fresh fruit bunch (FFB) production. The system boundary was defined using a gate-to-gate approach, starting from land conversion, transplanting of seedlings into the plantation, right until FFB are delivered to the … Read more

The oil palm nursery is the first link in the palm oil supply chain: this is where the oil palm seedlings are produced for the cultivation of palms in plantations. LCA of the production of oil palm seedlings is a gate-to-gate study which starts at the nursery where the germinated seeds are sown and the … Read more