Potential of Palm Oil Waste For Biolubricant
Potential of Palm Oil Waste For Biolubricant
Potential of Palm Oil Waste For Biolubricant
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Potential of Palm Oil Waste for Biolubricant
Thus, an alternative to
Vegetable oil Animal oil vegetable oils are also being
extensively investigated. In this
Source: Grand View Research (2016).
article, we are going to highlight
Figure 2. US biolubricants market revenue between 2014-2024. recent advancement in conversion
of waste cooking oil (Alotaibi and
Yousif, 2016) and palm oil mill
effluent into biolubricant (Figure 3).
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including Universiti Putra Malaysia (FFB) which requires effective into value added materials. This could
(UPM) have initiated campaign treatment before being discharged be a small but bigger leap in minimising
and starting a collection centre to to water body. waste for a more sustainable world in
encourage the nearby residents the long run. Exploration of WCO and
to keep and send the used oil to The amount of POME produced POME to be used as raw materials in
available collecting point. Herein, is expected to increase over years development of biolubricant not only
we are showing the potential of with estimation of 0.50 to 0.75 reduce the cost of starting materials
WCO to be used as biolubricant. t of POME generated for every but could reduce environmental
tonne of FFB processed (Yacob et pollution caused by improper disposal
The conversion of WCO can be al., 2005). Huge amount of POME of these wastes. Moreover, unlike
made in two-step process affording as by product from palm oil mills use of vegetable oil as feedstock,
as high as 98% conversion via could cause environmental issue no competition for human food
enzymatic route (Chowdury et al., if not properly treated pior to consumption would be encountered
2014) or combined with chemical disposal and has affected the mill when WCO and POME are used as
esterification (Chowdury et al., operators due to its high treatment raw materials for biolubricant.
2012). In comparison of Novozyme cost and difficulty to manage the
435-catalysed (enzyme-catalysed) waste attributed by large volume ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
and Amberlyst 15-catalysed generated. This would lead to
(chemical) esterification, Chowdury discharge of raw or partially treated The authors would like to thank
et al. proposed former route is POME as a far more cheaper and the Director-General of MPOB for
more efficient at 60°C. This process easier disposal method which permission to publish this article.
was then further optimised for eventually destroying the aquatic
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