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Palm Oil Usage

Palm oil’s ability to be separated into extensive range of different oils has enabled it to substitute various products which used to contain animal or other vegetable oils. CPO processed products can be grouped into two, namely food products and non food. As food products palm oil is well known in regions where it’s produced. The wide use of palm oil in food industry is subject to it’s competitive price compared to other vegetable or cooking oils in the market.

Red palm oil is known to be healthier than refined (discolored) palm oil. This is caused by some mitigating substances found in the red palm oil. These compounds are:

  • betacarotenes (present in higher amounts than in regular palm oil)
  • co-enzyme Q10 (ubiquinone)
  • squalene
  • Vitamin A
  • Vitamin E

As non-food products, palm oil is the source of oleochemical ie ester, fatty acid, surfactan, glycerol and derivative. The end non-food products made from palm oil include liquid detergents, soaps, and shampoos main or base ingredients. In its solid form, palm oil provides its usefulness as the base for lipsticks, waxes and polishes. During a steel manufacturing process, palm oil is also used to reduce friction.

Palm oil, as well as other vegetable oils, has also been used to make biodiesel for internal combustion engines. Biodiesel has been promoted as a form of biomass to be a renewable energy source to reduce carbon dioxide emission released into the atmosphere. Biodiesel also holds an important role in a national energy supply diversification. Scientists found that biodiesel made of palm oil grown of established plantations can decrease green house emission effectively.

Another possibility to exploit palm oil is currently being done in South Korea. The scientists are researching CPO waste processing with 72% water content as biodiesel energy. When completed, not only the CPO contributes the source of renewable energy, but its waste as well.

Palm oil can also be applied to treat wounds. Unrefined palm oil is supposed to have additional antimicrobial effects, but research does not clearly confirm this.

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