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but these activities have been piecemeal and uncoordinated. They have generally
concentrated on removing the tedium and drudgery from the mashing or pounding
stage (digestion), and improving the efficiency of oil extraction. Small mechanical,
motorised digesters (mainly scaled-down but unheated versions of the large-scale units
described above), have been developed in most oil palm cultivating African countries.
Palm oil processors of all sizes go through these unit operational stages. They differ in
the level of mechanisation of each unit operation and the interconnecting materials
transfer mechanisms that make the system batch or continuous. The scale of
operations differs at the level of process and product quality control that may be
achieved by the method of mechanisation adopted. The technical terms referred to in
the diagram above will be described later.
The general flow diagram is as follows:
PALM OIL PROCESSING UNIT OPERATIONS