Effects of microwave sterilization pre-treatment conditions on crude palm oil quality: article

Microwave sterilization pre-treatment conditions give direct effects to the crude palm oil quality. Its operating power and the ratio of water to the palm fruit spikelets are the variables that being manipulated in this study. Extraction of oil from the fresh fruit bunch is basically the practice adapted for the result analysis to be obtained. The power of the operation and the ratio to the water weight of every sample however are variables being manipulated in this particular case. Analyses of the samples are done through oil yield and Free Fatty Acid (FFA) consideration. In short, products of less FFA content and high oil product yield are a preferable attribute for quality productions. In this particular experimental study, the lowest FFA composition content and highest yield of oil produced are averagely of ratio 1:1 with 1000W operation power; with FFA content composition only at amount of 0.2278 and oil yield of 0.6263 in g/g of feed and oil product compared to its highest FFA composition content of 0.4608 and oil yield of only 0.2083 mainly attributed from less ratio composition of 1:0 and 1:0.5 and low operating power averagely between 600-800W. These data results proved that conditions of the microwave sterilization pre-treatment indeed impact the quality of crude palm oil produced