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What Is Oil Palm Biomass

Oil palm biomass refers to the various byproducts and waste materials generated from oil palm cultivation and palm oil processing, including palm fronds, palm kernel shells, mesocarp fibers, empty fruit bunches, oil palm trunks, and palm oil mill effluent. These byproducts have various uses such as mulch, fuel, fertilizer, and value-added products, helping to improve sustainability and reduce waste from the palm oil industry.

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What Is Oil Palm Biomass

Oil palm biomass refers to the various byproducts and waste materials generated from oil palm cultivation and palm oil processing, including palm fronds, palm kernel shells, mesocarp fibers, empty fruit bunches, oil palm trunks, and palm oil mill effluent. These byproducts have various uses such as mulch, fuel, fertilizer, and value-added products, helping to improve sustainability and reduce waste from the palm oil industry.

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Oil palm fronds: Consist of 62% fibres rich in nitrogen.

Used as mulch to reduce soil erosion, conserve soil moisture, and improve soil structure and biochemical properties.

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Palm kernel shells (PKS): Have highest calorific value of all the palm biomass. Combined with EFBs and mesocarp for use as fuel. Also used to aerate oil palm polybag seedlings and to surface estate roads.

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Mesocarp fibres: They make up 15% of the fresh fruit bunches processed, and contain 6% oil residue and 30% moisture content. A source of boiler fuel in combination with EFBs.

Empty fruit bunches (EFB): A solid residue of the mill. Have high fibre content. Used as boiler fuel or incinerated for bunch ash, a good source of potash fertiliser.

Oil palm trunks: High content of non-fibrous tissues, moisture and silica. Consist of lignocellulosic material. Valuable for value-added products.

NOTE: It is estimated that for every tonne of palm oil produced from fresh fruit bunches (FFB), a farmer harvests around six tonnes of waste palm fronds, one tonne of palm trunks, five tonnes of EFB, one tonne of mesocarp fibres, 0.5 tonne of PKS, 250 kg of palm kernel press cake, and 100 tonnes of POME. In all, Malaysia produced 80 million tonnes of oil palm biomass and 56 million tonnes of POME in 2011.

Palm oil mill effluent (POME): Rich in plant nutrients and increasingly used as oil palm fertiliser. High in organic material suitable for anaerobic fermentation for the production of biogas.

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