KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 22): The Ministry of Plantation and Commodities on Tuesday proposed investing in new technologies and infrastructure to more efficiently convert wastes from palm oil production into biomass energy.
Waste industry materials like empty fruit bunches (EFB), mesocarp fibre, and palm kernel shells could be burned and turned into energy, said its minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani. Further, palm oil mills generate effluent that could be converted into energy through methane capture, he noted.
“Integrating these organic materials into the agricultural cycle creates a closed-loop system,” Johari told reporters after the Oils and Fats International Congress 2024, an event organised by the Malaysian Oil Scientists and Technologists Association. Read More at https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/731081
0 Comments