Major Challenges and Problems of Oil
Recovery to the Oil Processors
In general, the essence of oil palm plantation establishment in countries where the climatic factor favor its growth is to generate palm fruits that will be milled into palm oil. The profitability and economy of this enterprise is dependent on the efficient extraction of the oil from the fruit. In other words, the oil extraction ratio (OER) of the processing/milling set up must be very high. Therefore one of the major challenges of oil recovery facing the processor is in the area of availability and selection of processing equipment and methods that will extract approximately 100% of the oil in the feedstock at a competitive price at both the small and large scales.