Benefits of Palm Acid Oil – Palm Acid Oil (PAO) is palm oil produced from the remaining production of crude palm oil refining. This thick orange palm oil product has another name, Palm Oil Mill Effluent or POME. This palm oil has a high vegetable fatty acid content with a soft texture. Palm oil producers sell Palm Acid Oil to animal feed processing factories, cosmetic factories, and biogas fuel factories. This palm oil has quite a high selling value because it has benefits as a raw material for production. The following are the benefits of Palm Acid Oil as an industrial raw material:
Benefits of Palm Acid Oil
Palm Acid Oil as a raw material for soap
Palm Acid Oil has benefits as a raw material for soap because it contains high levels of fatty acids. Apart from that, fatty acids can moisturize and also make soap foam more. Because it is formed from vegetable fats, soap products can have a softer texture and are easy to solidify.
Animal Feed raw materials
The high fatty acid content in Palm Acid Oil makes this palm oil suitable as a raw material for animal feed. Because it contains fatty acids, animal feed will have additional nutrients that are good for physical fattening. Apart from that, the cheap price of PAO means that animal feed producers can sell animal feed products more affordably. So that farmers can provide cheap and high-quality animal feed to their livestock.
Used as Fuel
Palm oil has the potential to become an environmentally friendly fuel source such as biogas and biodiesel. Several developing countries use Palm Acid Oil as a substitute for natural gas fuel by processing it into biogas. Apart from that, the manufacture of biodiesel is also being experimented with using Palm Acid Oil as a raw material.
Benefits of Palm Fatty Acid Distillate raw materials
Not only as a raw material or mixture, Palm Acid Oil can be reprocessed into Palm Fatty Acid Distillate or PFAD. PFAD is a raw material for making oleochemical products and livestock supplement products. Products made from Palm Fatty Acid Distillate are calcium fat supplements for livestock, magnesium stearate, and PVC thermal stabilizers. Currently, Palm Fatty Acid Distillate continues to be developed to have more benefits for the chemical industry.