Quality Control of the Stems of Palm Trees at Palmci-Irobo Oil Mill

The control and analysis of the quality of the palm tree stem performed to increase the oil production rate were carried out using visual analysis at three levels. The control in the field, at the entry of the factory and during unloading. The physical analysis consisted of randomly selection of a collection vehicle, after its identification, sorting and classifying its content according to the following configuration: Ripped stems, green stems and stems with long peduncles. A chemical analysis consisting of taking a representative sample of the loading configuration was carried out in order to determine the potential of oil extraction. This control system adopted enabled to significantly reduce green stems from 15-1.3%, rotted stems from 14.2-1.3%, the length of the peduncles from 33.8-0.8% and impurities from 6.5-1.7%. We also noticed during the current year an increase in the ripped stems from 81.6-97.4% having for consequence an increase in the production rate of oil at the factory from 20.1-23.7% (being a profit of 3.6%).