The objectives of the paper were to provide information
for a process to produce a high oleic palm-based oil
through chemical interesterification with an oleate source,
which may become increasingly available due to growth in
biodiesel manufacture, and to provide compositional data
about possible fractions. Two distillations are indeed needed for the complete process, but may not need to be taken
up by one operator, as the process can be split up. The
authors provided the process for the reaction between the
refined palm oil products and methyl oleate. Although it
had been critically projected that the HOPO obtained has
not reached equilibrium, the data obtained reflects what
was achieved, which was not far from equilibrium. There
are certain aspects of the pilot-plant design which could
have given the results as shown in Fig. 1, and of which we
are not able to explain fully without divulging designs of
the plant