10 MT per Hour Small Palm Oil Mill - Concepts & Designs

The Concept of a CKD Palm Oil Mill

A Complete-Knock-Down (CKD) palm oil mill is a palm oil mill that has been designed, fabricated and fully built-up in the supplier’s plant, before it is complete-knocked-down into its major components, packaged into containers and shipped to the buyer’s project site for assembling into a fully functional palm oil mill. 

Why Build a CKD Palm Oil Mill?

The main reason for building palm oil mill with CKD design its much faster construction and delivery speed.  It normally would take 20-24 months to build a palm oil mill by the conventional way.  With the CKD design, it can be done in 12-14 months, about 40-50% shorter in time. 

This is because with the CKD design, the work flow can progress in very much faster and orderly manner in a factory environment.  Moreover, working time can be easily extended to 2 shifts or even 3 round-the-clock shifts as and when necessary.  On the other hand, logistics and weather are often the major causes in hampering or delaying the work flow in the on-site building of a palm oil mill.     

The Concept of a Movable Palm Oil Mill

Broadly speaking, a movable or so-called “mobile” palm oil mill is one that is designed with high “mobility” characteristics.  The major components of the processing line are designed in such a way that they could be easily opened up or detached for the purpose of moving them in containers or trucks to a new site for reassembling back to its original state.  In fact, a movable palm oil mill has to be designed and built as a CKD-design palm oil mill.

The Optimum Size of a CKD Moveable Palm oil Mill

The optimum size or processing capacity of a CKD-design movable palm oil mill is 10 metric ton (mt) fresh fruit bunch (FFB) per hour.  This is because the major components of palm oil mills of capacity bigger than 10mt per hour would be too large to be detached and moved around in containers or trucks. 

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CIMG Resources Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
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10 MT per Hour Small Palm Oil Mill - Supply & Delivery

The processing line of the small 10mt/hr palm oil mill, including the main plant building, will first be wholly fabricated and built up in the supplier’s plant in Malaysia, and then complete-knocked-down (CKD) into major components, packaged into containers for shipping to the project site. 

Prior to the arrival of the processing machinery, civil & structural works including site selection, land/site preparation, water supply (pumping & piping), waste-water treatment facilities, office/housing, access/site roads, fencing etc will have to be carried out by the project owner through local contractors in accordance with the supplier’s technical drawings/guidelines. 

When the containers arrive at the project site, the supplier will install the CKD components with nuts and bolts onto to readied footings on concrete base, join, wire-up and commission the whole processing line. 

The order-to-delivery time is expected to take about 12-14 months barring unforeseen circumstances like shipping/land transport delay and bad weather conditions. 


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CIMG Resources Sdn Bhd, Malaysia  
Email:  cimgrs@yahoo.com

10 MT per Hour Small Palm Oil Mill - Operation Features

This small 10mt/hr palm oil mill is comprised of the following four stations:

Station 1:   FFB reception, sterilization and oil extraction

Station 2:   Oil clarification, filtration & dehydration, and sludge water pumping

Station 3:   Depericarping, nut cracking and kernel recovery

Station 4:   Steam & power generation plant

FFB Reception, Sterilization and Oil Extraction

Fresh fruit bunches (FFB) received at the reception bay are weighed, graded and manually loaded into the skip elevator for feeding into two Vertical Sterilizers and subjected to steaming at a pressure of about 3.16bar.g for 90 minutes.

The sterilized fruit bunches (SFB) are automatically fed into a rotating drum of the Bunch Stripper where the fruits are separated. The separated fruits are transported by skip elevator into a Digester. The digested mash is fed by gravity into a Twin-Screw Press for oil extraction.

Oil Clarification

After a filtering process to remove most of the fiber residues, the crude palm oil mixture is fed into a Static Settling Tank for continuous oil separation. The skimmed oil is fed into the Second Static Tank for more refined clarification. The clarified oil is filtered through a Dehydrator to reduce its moisture content to 0.1%.

This Clarification plant is designed to recover and purify the crude palm oil quickly with minimum heating and air exposure to minimize oxidation of palm oil.

Kernel Recovery

The press cake comprising of fiber and nuts is transported through a Cake Breaker Paddle Conveyor which helps break up the nuts from the fiber and reduce moisture. The fiber and nuts are separated in a Pneumatic Winnowing Column. Cracking of the nuts are done by a Ripple Mill and the crack mixture is fed through a Claybath for separation. The washed kernels are dried in a drying silo to moisture content of 7% before storage.

Steam & Power Plant

The steam for power generation and FFB sterilization is supplied by a 10mt/hr Steam Boiler using fruit fiber and shell as solid fuels. Power generation of about 300kW is achieved by the Steam Turbine Driven Alternator.  A main genset of 250kW is to provide standby power supply.

For further enquiries, please contact:
 
CIMG Resources Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Email:  cimgrs@yahoo.com