Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil obtained from fruit and kernel (seed) oil palm (Elaeis guineensis). Palm oil usually colored red because they contain beta-carotene content is high (but if boiled, it destroyed the material carotenoids, as well as oil color fade). Palm oil is one kind of vegetable oil that is high in saturated fats (like coconut oil) by the semi-solid state of the atmosphere of the room temperature.
Palm oil is widely used as cooking oil, margarine ingredients, and also materials for making various processed foods. These oils are also important ingredients in making soap, washing powder and personal care products, and also used to treat wounds, and also rates as well as a biofuel feedstock.
Chemical processing
Palm oil and palm kernel oil consists of fatty acids with glycerol terester like any other ordinary fat. Both oils are high in saturated fatty acids, which have respectively 50% and 80%. Palm oil lends its name to palmitic acid, a saturated fatty acid 16-carbon that is found in palm oil; monounsaturated oleic acid is a constituent of palm oil while palm kernel oil is high in lauric acid. Palm oil is a natural source of tocotrienols is the largest, one group of vitamin E. Palm oil is also high in vitamin K and magnesium dietary substances. [Citation needed] Napalm borrows its name from naphthenes acid, palmitic acid, and pyrotechnics, or just a recipe using naphtha and palm oil.
Malaysia
In 2003, Malaysia produced 14 million tonnes of palm oil from the land of more than 38,000 square kilometers, making it the largest palm oil exporter in the world. Most of taninya channeled to the market and use of food hygiene. Conglomerate Sime Darby is the largest operator of oil palm plantations, which has 524.626 hectares in Peninsular, Sabah and Sarawak, in addition to managing the farm in Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sulawesi in Indonesia, as well as manufacturing plants and refineries.
International Energy Agency predicts the use of biofuels in Asian countries remains modest. However, as a major producer of palm oil, the government encourages the production of biofuel feed and construction of biodiesel plant using palm oil. Malaysia is also getting ready to switch from diesel to biofuel use in the country by the year 2008, including drafting legislation, which requires the transition. Since 2007, all diesel sold in Malaysia must contain 5% palm oil. Malaysia rise up as one of the producers of the biofuel plant approved the helm after 91 and some of them are operational, all working on palm oil. Most of them aim to meet regional demand, in addition to the plans to export oil to Europe, while China became the main importer of biofuel output Malaysia fuel.