SYNOPSIS

Engineers, Public, traders or investors always pay attention ONLY on the conventional key products in the palm oil mill. The Crude Palm Oil (CPO) and Palm Kernel (PK) are the two popular trading products in the commodity market conventionally. Lately more and more investors and traders start to focus on palm oil mill by-products and exploring the engineering process. This is a positive indication anyway.

It is proudly to share here that not only the palm oil mill key-products can be traded, but the solid biomass waste(s) which are more and more that converted into valuable by-products are gradually traded locally as well as sold to foreign country, particularly traded with company who is focusing to the renewable energy for national power supply (Japan and Korea for example).

There are many by-products (solid biomass waste especially) in the palm oil mill engineering process. Due to the environmental concerns and mandatory compliances set by the governing authorities, efforts & expenditure on handling and managing the waste has become heavy fixed operating cost in the palm oil milling annually. This is an operating barrier to the industry.

In order to be technically and commercially sustainable, the approach of dealing with waste shall be in the voluntary mode, rather than mandatory. This is more holistic and practical in overall operating condition. On the environment aspect, the carbon stock (CO2   can be reduced gradually & ultimately through more holistic approaches.


SPEAKER BIODATA

Ir. Hor Kok Luen(P.Eng, PEPC, MIEM, First Grade Competent Steam Engineer, ASEAN Engineer, APEC Engineer, International Professional Engineer) graduated from University of Science Malaysia (USM) in2001. He is holding the Bachelor of Degree (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering.

He has more than 20 years of working experience in the palm oil mill & related downstream industries, inclusive of biogas power plant and biomass plant. He has vast experience in palm oil mill design, mill upgrading and mill troubleshooting as well as palm oil waste handling & management. As holding the qualification as Competent First Grade Steam Engineer(JKKP, Malaysia), currently he is performing his professional service by taking the responsibility and challenges (overall mill operation) for a well-established palm oil group of company which owns 100 tons per hour capacity palm oil mills, plantations and subsidiary plants, which aggressively embark involving in palm oil mill processing, long fiberplant, short fiber plant, organic waste water treatment plant design & management, biomass power plant, biogas capturing plant, CHP plant and of course green energy generation for grid connection (Feed in tariff) besides is landed unit for in-house consumption. The speaker is a corporate member of The Institutions of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) in Mechanical Discipline. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer with Practicing Certificate (PEPC) with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). He is a qualified ASEAN Engineer (AE), APEC Engineer and International Professional Engineer MY_E_00573. Currently he is the Deputy Chairman of Agricultural & Food Engineering Technical Division (AFETD), The Institutions of Engineers Malaysia, IEM.