TY  - GEN
T1  - Life cycle assessment (LCA) for food : Refined palm oil and its fractions
A1  - Mohd Basri Wahid
LA  - English
PB  - Malaysian Palm Oil Board
YR  - 2014
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/oai:http:--agris.upm.edu.my:0-6365
AB  - An environmental impact assessment for the production of refined palm oil beginning from oil palm seedlings was carried out using the life cycle approach. The assessment was also applied to the fractionation process for obtaining palm olein and palm stearin from
refined palm oil. The investigated system included the production of oil palm seedlings in nurseries, agricultural practices in the oil palm plantations, extraction of palm oil from palm fruits, right through to refining and fractionation in the refineries. The consumption of raw materials, including energy, and emissions were evaluated using site-specific inventory data to identify the processes along the palm oil supply chain which gave rise to
the most significant environmental burdens. Material inputs and outputs from the system were quantified based on the functional unit of1 tonne of refined palm oil, refined palm olein or palm stearin. The production and use of fertilizers in the cultivation of the palms, the generation of palm oil effluent from the mills, and the consumption of fossil fuels for the production of polybags for holding the seedlings and for transportation of the crude palm oil to the refineries were found to be "hotspots" which need to be addressed.
KW  - Life cycle
KW  - Palm oils
KW  - Seedlings
KW  - Fractionation
KW  - Stearin
KW  - Land use
KW  - Life cycle analysis
KW  - Environmental impact assessment
KW  - Oil palms
KW  - Fertilizer application
KW  - Malaysia
ER  -