Electronic design of portable ECT for crude palm oil quality monitoring system
This paper presents the process of visualizing the composition of a crude palm oil (GPO) daring separator process which collects the recovered cmde palm oil from the liquid waste before separation process, in order to monitor the percentage of load waste present using a tomographic technique by Port...
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ICIC International
2012
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| Summary: | This paper presents the process of visualizing the composition of a crude
palm oil (GPO) daring separator process which collects the recovered cmde palm oil from
the liquid waste before separation process, in order to monitor the percentage of load
waste present using a tomographic technique by Portable. Electrical Capacitance Tomography
(ECT) so that the process separation (separate oil and water/sludge) becomes much
easier and the quality of crude palm oil can be reliably monitored. Palm oils industry
is one of the largest production; producer and exporter of palm oil and palm oil products
countries in the world. Oil Palm was first introduced to Malaysia in year 1875 as
an ornamental plant. Malaysia has the most ideal climate conditions for growing oil
palm. The growth of the palm oil industry in Malaysia has been phenomenal over the
last 4 decades. Nevertheless, palm oil industry is one of the most pollution generating
agro industries in Malaysia. One of the major problems arises from the oil palm fruit
processing is the large amount of wastes generated during the processes. There are two
main wastes resulted from operation of a Palm Oil Mill, namely solid waste and liquid
waste. The solid waste may consist of palm Kernel shells, mesocorp fibers and empty
fruit bunches. The liquid waste generated from extraction of palm oil of a wet process
comes mainly from oil mom after separator or decanter. There is no monitoring system
that is currently available in our local palm oil mill to visualize the percentage of load
waste present inside the vessel. Therefore, the system is aimed to become an instrument
to support the local and foreign palm oil mills to efficiently control in monitoring the
quality of crude palm oil flow in the conveying pipeline during extraction of palm oil mill
process. The monitoring system is able to visualize the percentage of load waste present
inside the vessel so that the data can be used to design better process equipment in mill
process or to control certain processes in order to maximize the quality of cmde palm oil
and the POME treatment process can be improved. |
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