Malaysia's Sime Darby Plantation is collaborating with Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co to construct and operate a bioethanol demonstration plant in Malaysia's Selangor State.
The plant will convert oil empty palm fruit branches, available year-round and in abundant supply, into bioethanol, according to a statement from Sime Darby Plantation, a unit of conglomerate Sime Darby Bhd.
The plant, to be built next to Sime Darby's palm oil mill in Selangor, will have a processing capacity of 1.25 metric tons of empty fruit branches a day and will be used to collect operational data and confirm the technical feasibility of commercial-scale production of bioethanol.
