scholarly journals Characteristics of Fresh Fruit Bunch Yield and the Physicochemical Qualities of Palm Oil during Storage in North Sumatra, Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Basyuni ◽  
Nofrizal Amri ◽  
Lollie Agustina Pancawaraswati Putri ◽  
Indra Syahputra ◽  
Deni Arifiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Fresh Fruit ◽  
Carotenoid Content ◽  
Fresh Fruit Bunch ◽  
Carotene Content ◽  
Fruit Storage ◽  
Palm Fruits ◽  
North Sumatra ◽  
Bunch Yield

This study examines the fresh fruit bunch (FFB) yield and the effect of fruit storage on the quality of palm oil in Bangun Bandar Estate, Dolok Masihul, North Sumatra, with special reference to the physicochemical parameters. The quality of palm oil is mostly determined by the color, free fatty acids (FFAs), moisture, impurities, carotene content, and deterioration of bleachability index (DOBI). The palm fruits were stored in a refrigerator for 0, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days after harvesting before analyzing their carotenoid content, DOBI, FFAs, moisture, and impurities. The results showed that the potency of the crude palm oil (CPO) types, dura, pisifera, and tenera, were 23.5, 26.2, and 23.6%, respectively. The carotenoid content and DOBI of the palm oil types, dura, pisifera, and tenera, were decreased significantly by lengthy storage of the fruit. By contrast, lengthy storage of the fruit significantly increased the FFA, moisture, and impurity contents of these palm oil types, indicating that this reduced the quality of the palm oil. Oil processed from FFB has excellent quality with a high carotene content and DOBI, and a low concentration of FFA, moisture, and impurities. The present study contributes to palm oil stability and nutritional value.

scholarly journals PENGARUH TINGKAT KERUSAKAN JALAN PERKEBUNAN DAN POSISI TANDAN BUAH SEGAR DI BAK TRUK TERHADAP KINERJA ANGKUTAN KELAPA SAWIT (Effect of Estate Road Damage and Fresh Fruit Bunch Position in Truck Bin on Oil Palm Transportation Performance)

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Wahyu Krisdiarto ◽  
Lilik Sutiarso
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Fresh Fruit ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Fresh Fruit Bunch ◽  
Damage Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Method Analysis

Oil Palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) transportation is a vital step in post harvest process. Transportation condition mayaffects the quantity and quality of FFB as a palm oil factory raw material. Due to many estate roads are not at idealcondition, this research was addressed to explore the relationship between road damage level and position of FFBin truck bin to transportation performance. Transportation performance indicator were leftover fruit, level of releasedfruitlets, fruits bruise index, and free fatty acid (FFA) content. The research divided into two stage. The first wason transportation performance in collection road. The second was FFB transportation from fruit collection point tofactory, which was treated on good, moderate, and bad road. Observation was done to the FFB at bottom, middleand upper layer of truck bin. The transportation performace indicators were analized by Anova, and continued byTukey method analysis if there were differentces among treatments. Result showed that level of road damage wassignificantly affect transportation performace indicator i.e level of leftover fruits, but it was not significantly affectlevel of released fruitlets, fruits bruise index, and FFA content. Meanwhile, FFB position in truck bin influenced levelof fruitlets releasing, and significantly influenced fruits bruise index.Keywords: Palm oil transportation, leftover fruits, released fruitlets, bruise index, oil Pal FFB ABSTRAKPengangkutan tandan buah segar (TBS) kelapa sawit merupakan satu tahap penting dalam proses pascapanen. Kondisipengangkutan menentukan kuantitas dan kualitas TBS sebagai bahan baku pabrik kelapa sawit. Mengingat masihbanyak jalan perkebunan yang belum ideal, penelitian ini bertujuan mempelajari hubungan tingkat kerusakan jalan danpenempatan TBS di bak truk terhadap kinerja pengangkutan. Indikator kinerja pengangkutan yang digunakan adalahbuah restan (tertinggal di kebun), kadar asam lemak bebas (ALB), tingkat pelepasan buah (membrondol), dan tingkatmemar (indeks memar). Penelitian dibagi menjadi dua tahap, yaitu: 1) kinerja pengangkutan dari piringan pohon ketempat pengumpulan hasil (TPH). 2) kinerja pengangkutan dari TPH ke pabrik. Perlakuan dalam penelitian tahap duaadalah kualitas jalan pengumpulan, yaitu jalan baik, sedang, dan buruk, dan posisi TBS di bak truk, yaitu di lapisandasar, tengah, dan atas. Hubungan panjang jalan rusak dengan tingkat restan buah dianalisis dengan analisis regresi,sedang indikator kinerja pengangkutan dianalisis dengan analisis varians (Anova), dan kemudian dilanjutkan dengananalisis satu arah pembedaan antar perlakuan dengan metode Tukey. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kondisi atautingkat kerusakan jalan memberikan pengaruh terhadap indikator kinerja pengangkutan tingkat buah restan, namuntidak secara nyata berpengaruh terhadap tingkat pelepasan buah sawit dari tandan (pembrondolan), tingkat kerusakanbuah (indeks memar) dan kadar ALB pada saat pengangkutan menggunakan truk bak kayu. Sedang posisi TBS didalam bak truk berpengaruh cukup nyata terhadap tingkat pelepasan buah dari tandan, dan berpengaruh nyata terhadapindeks memar buah selama pengangkutan.Kata kunci: Pengangkutan, restan, pembrondolan, indeks memar, TBS kelapa sawit

scholarly journals Effects of Hydrological Parameters on Palm Oil Fresh Fruit Bunch Yield)

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 012051 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Nda ◽  
M S Adnan ◽  
M A Suhadak ◽  
M S Zakaria ◽  
R T Lopa
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Fresh Fruit ◽  
Fresh Fruit Bunch ◽  
Hydrological Parameters ◽  
Bunch Yield

scholarly journals Design and development of a motor operated oil palm crusher for smallholder growers in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
MA Awal ◽  
SS Tabriz
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Electric Motor ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Recovery Rate ◽  
Fresh Fruit ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Crude Palm Oil ◽  
Fresh Fruit Bunch ◽  
Rotating Speed

At present oil palm growers are facing problem to extract crude palm oil in Bangladesh. Processing of palm oil categorized into various forms but basic processing stages are essentially the same including harvesting, sterilization, bunch stripping, digestion, crushing, clarification and drying. Extracting of palm oil is very difficult by traditional method and oil recovery rate is very low. Although mechanical processing is costly but produces good quality Crude Palm Oil (CPO) and oil recovery rate is high. An electric motor operated oil palm crusher was designed and developed and tested in laboratory under the Department of Farm Power and Machinery, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh for processing of crude palm oil from fresh fruit bunch. The crusher was designed by using Auto-Cad software. It was fabricated according to design parameters. The major parts of the crusher were screw shaft, cylinder, hopper, hollow bars, pressure case cap, jamnut and frame which were fabricated by mild steel (MS), ball bearing, gear and pinion, line and idle shaft and spring were fabricated by carbon steel (CS) whereas driver and driven pulley were fabricated by cast iron(CI). Crusher was mounted on the frame. A 9 hp electric motor was used as a power source. Crusher was tested after fabrication and 3000 gm fresh fruits were used. About 700 gm crude palm oil, 800 gm oil cake, 1400 gm skum were collected from 2700 gm pretreated fruits. The crushing capacity and crude oil percentage of the crusher was 6.49 kg/hr and 25.93%, respectively. Rotating speed of screw was 40 rpm for smooth running. The weight of crusher was only 70 kg which is easy to operate by single person. The developed oil palm crusher may fulfill the demand of smallholder growers to extract oil from fresh fruit bunches. Progressive Agriculture 30 (1): 141-149, 2019

scholarly journals ANALISA PENGANGKUTAN TANDAN BUAH SEGAR DENGAN TEKNIK SPC (Statistical Process Control)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
Dina Arfianti Saragih ◽  
Debby Sanandra ◽  
Washington Simbolon
Keyword(s):  
Crop Yields ◽  
Fresh Fruit ◽  
Process Time ◽  
Daily Production ◽  
Statistical Process ◽  
Fresh Fruit Bunch ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
Fresh Fruit Bunches ◽  
North Sumatra ◽  
Descriptive Method

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the Palm Oil Fresh Fruit Bunch transportation system. This research was conducted at Air Batu Estate Afdeling I PTPN IV, which is located in Asahan Regency, North Sumatra. This research was conducted in July to August 2018. The method used in this study was a descriptive method by taking data in the field about the arrangement of transportation of oil palm fresh fruit bunches. Observations made included information on the Air Batu estate, estimated daily harvest, transport transportation, daily production and transportation, and obstacles or obstacles to the transportation process. Based on observations made, it was found that: (1) The average loading process time for the rotation II was 64.22 minutes, the average time of the transport process from Afdeling I to PKS for the rotation II was 28.68 minutes, and the average time average unloading process at PKS is duration 18.30 minutes, (2) Based on the SPC for the value of Cp and Cpk for loading, transporting and unloading processing time can be said to be less effective with Cp and Cpk values <1, (3) Average number of trips per day in August 2018 which is 2 trips / day. The theoretical trip calculation results are 4 trips / day, (4) The average number of daily harvest production in August 2018 in Afdeling I of Batu Air Farm 34,542 kg TBS. Daily crop yields are still below the daily harvest planning target of 38,307 kg FFB, and (5) The speed of the truck is 12.6 km/hr, this is due to the damaged and bupy road.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Color Models for Palm Oil Fresh Fruit Bunch Ripeness Classification

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurbaity Sabri ◽  
Zaidah Ibrahim ◽  
Dino Isa
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Fresh Fruit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Color Model ◽  
Fresh Fruit Bunch ◽  
Color Models ◽  
Ripe Stage ◽  
The Right

This paper investigates the application of eight color models for automatic palm oil Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) ripeness classification with multi-class Support Vector Machine (SVM).  Ripeness classification is important during harvesting to ensure that they are harvested during the correct ripe stage for optimum oil production.  Since color is a significant indicator for agriculturists to determine the ripeness of FFB, it is critical to determine the right color model. Eight color models have been investigated namely, HSV, I1I2I3, LAB, XYZ, YCbCr, YIQ, YUV and RGB. Color moments were extracted from each of these color models for the classification of four stages of FFB ripeness that are unripe, under-ripe, ripe and over-ripe.  A database of five hundred images of palm oil FFB has been constructed and experiments showed that YCbCr and YUV outperform the other color models.

scholarly journals Loose Fruit Collector Machine in Malaysia: A Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Mohd Zulfahmi Mohd Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Palm Oil ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Fresh Fruit ◽  
Important Process ◽  
Fresh Fruit Bunch ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Collection Process ◽  
Two Machines

Malaysia is the world’s second largest producer of palm oil after Indonesia. There are six main processes in most commercial palm oil production. In harvesting, the collection of loose fruit is an important process because the loose fruit contain the highest percentage of oil compared to fresh fruit bunch. Thus, the loose fruit collection process needs to be taken into consideration. In order to properly manage the collection of clean loose fruit, there is a need for a loose fruit-collecting machine that can collect the loose fruit efficiently. In this paper, a loose fruit collecting machine and roller type oil palm loose fruit picker in Malaysia are reviewed and the advantages and disadvantages of these two machines categories are discussed. These two machines could provide significant advantages to the industry by increasing productivity through the efficient collection of loose fruit.   Keywords: Oil palm, loose fruit, fresh fruit bunch

Modelling Fresh Fruit Bunch Yield Stability in Oil Palm using Different Stability Statistics

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.N. Okoye ◽  
C.O. Okwuagwu ◽  
M.I. Uguru ◽  
C.D. Ataga ◽  
K.P. Baiyeri
Keyword(s):  
Oil Palm ◽  
Fresh Fruit ◽  
Yield Stability ◽  
Fresh Fruit Bunch ◽  
Stability Statistics ◽  
Bunch Yield
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