SYNOPSIS

Malaysians have two types of oils in the country, mainly oil from the ground and of course oil from the tree. Oil palm Industry has been contributing and generating a lot of revenue to the country besides providing unlimited fruitful employment to the nations.

Currently Palm Oil Mills have grown into a very competitive business environment in Malaysia. Undeniably an efficient and effective milling, management, compliance, optimization& transformation will be the ways to ensure sustainability of the business.

Palm oil mill design- how far is our approach and exploration in this industry relevant and in-line with the current track of progressing? With the factors of concern on sustainability and recent issues  for instance on climate change, more stringent regulation and compliance from the authorities (MPOB, JKKP,DOE, Immigration, Bomba, local authority, town council, etc) cum more comprehensive of the corporate responsibility, where does this industry stand?

Undeniably new scope of palm oil mill design and set up must be more relevant, linkable and attachable to the current status in terms of sustainability. These are inclusive of the points on getting more environmental friendly, more cost effective, less labour intensive, and more operation friendly, safer and more conducive in working environment, last but not least of course it must be commercially viable and sustainable. Let us focus it closer from the view of MASS BALANCE.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Hor Kok Luen (P.Eng, MIEM, First Grade Competent Steam Engineer) graduated from University of Science Malaysia (USM) in 2001. He is holding Bachelor of Degree (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering. He has more than 15 years of working experience in the palm oil mill & related industries. He has vast experience in palm oil mill design, mill upgrading and mill troubleshooting as well as waste handling & management.

As holding the qualification as Competent First Grade Steam Engineer (JKKP, Malaysia), currently he is taking the responsibility and challenge as the Chief Engineer for a well-established palm oil group of company which owns five (5) palm oil mills and subsidiary plants, which aggressively embark involving in palm oil mill processing, long fiber plant, short fiber plant, solvent extraction plant, biomass power plant, biogas capturing plant and of course green energy generation for grid connection (Feed in tariff).

The speaker is a corporate member of The Institutions of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) in Mechanical Discipline. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). Currently he is a committee member of Food & Agricultural Engineering Technical Division (AFETD),IEM.