Palm nuts

Commercially important nuts ia world trade iaclude almond, Bra2il nut, cashew, chestnut, coconut (copra), filbert, macadamia, palm nut, peanut, pecan, pignoHa, pistachio, and Knglish walnut. Coconut, palm nut, peanut, as well as babassu, oiticia, and tung, are important sources of oil for soap, paint, varnish, as well as many other domestic and iadustrial uses. 

Palm-kemdl n. palm-kernel oil. -kemolselfe, -kernseife, /. palm(-kernel) oil soap, -lilie, /. yucca, -nuss, /. palm nut, palm kernel coconut. -nussSl,n. palm-kernel oil coconut oil. -ol, n. palm oil. -dlseife, /. palm oil soap, -seife, /. palm (oil) soap, -sekt, m. palm wine, palm toddy, -starke, /. palm starch, sago, -wachs, n. palm wax. -zucker, m. palm sugar, jaggery. 

Mannans have been found in some kinds of plants such as endosperms of copra and ivory palm nuts, guar beans, locust beans, coffee beans and roots of konjak Amorphophallus konjac). Most of these saccharides are used only in the food and feed processing industries. Recently, it has been reported that manno-oligosaccharides are useful as one of the best growth factors for Bifidobacterium sp. and Lactobacillus... 

Areca catechu L. A. hortonsis Lour. Bing Lang (Betel nut palm) (nut) Arecholine, arecholidine, guvacoline, guvacine.33 Treat taeniasis. 

Figure 54.2 Brazilian native preparing dry rubber by smoking latex coated wooden shovel over a pot of burning palm nuts. Turtle shell bowl contains small pool of latex. Source-. Engraving from The Amazon and Madeira Rivers by Franz Keller published by J. B. Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia, 1875. The Library of Congress.

The major producers of oil palm products are located in the equatorial tropics and include Malaysia, Nigeria, Indonesia, China, Zaire, and Cameroon (54). Palm fruit, when pressed, yields approximately 43% of crude palm oil and 57% of press cake, which consists of 35% pericarp (fiber) and 65% nuts. Palm nuts consists of 83% shells and 17% kernels, which, when pressed, yield approximately 50% of each of palm kernel oil and palm kernel cake (55). 

African oil palm nuts, which are less thick-shelled than most American palm nuts, are hand cracked to some extent but in Indonesia and Malaysia they are usually machine cracked. In one type of cracking machine, the nuts are fed to the center of a rotor equipped with curved baffles, along which the nuts are flung out against a heavy steel housing and broken by impact. Another type of machine resembles a hammer mill. The rotor consists of a frame supporting four heavy steel paddles the nuts are dropped into the path of the paddles and cracked by impact. 

Test fuel Peanut shell Wood pellets Coconut shell Palm nut shell Wood chips Coal... 

Notes (1) The peanut shell pellets were 3/8" diameter from Birdsong Peanuts, Georgia the wood pellets are standard / inch wood heat pellets from Ace Hardware the coconut shells were obtained from the Philippines hammennilled to 1 com on an edge the palm nut shells were obtained in Indonesia the wood chips were mixed tree chips from Denver -- 2 cm on an edge the coal was bituminous from Denver crushed to 2 cm on an edge. 

EINECS 232-425-4 HSDB 1977 Oils, glyceridic, palm kernel Oils, palm kernel Palm kernel oil Palm kernel oil, fatty acid Palm kernel oil [Oil, edible) Palm nut oil Palm oil (from seed). Used in the manufxture of soap, has been used in oliniments and ointments. Yellow-white oil mp = 26-30 d = 0.952. 

Allegro. (1997—France) Collision with anotiier ship in the Channel due to foggy weather. Palm nut oil (700 tons) (F). Impact on the environment. Monitoring of the stranding of the product at sea (observation by air and by sea). Recovery of oil residues on the coast (12 tons). Franco-British cooperation. Positive use of remote sensing. 

Isovalerin CsH,(0.0,H,0), Porpoise, dolphin and whale oils Cocoa-nut and palm-nut oils 114-7... 

Palm-nut Oil,—The kernels of the palm-tree fruit are "exported from the west coast of Africa to Europe, and this oil obtained from them. Typical samples of English and Hamburg oils tested —... 

Cohune-nut oil is produced from the nuts of the cohune palm, which flourishes in British Honduras. This oil closely resembles cocoa-nut and palm-nut oils and is stated to saponify readily and yield a soap free from odour. The following figures, obtained in the Laboratory of the Imperial Institute, are recorded in the official Bulletin, 1903, p. 25 —... 

Data in Table 6.1 show the tonnage of nuts harvested during the decade between 1979 and 1989. There was an increase in tonnage of all tree nuts, including coconuts and palm nuts. 

Carotene, m.p. 185°, [a] = 0°, resembles the a-form, but is slightly less soluble. -Carotene occurs almost pure in spinach and in red pepper (paprika). The carotene fraction from palm-nut oil contains about 60-70 per cent, of the jS-form, the rest being a-carotene. 

Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) 9 Palm Nut Oil Polystyrene, Impact (IPS) 4-9... 

Husain, Z., Zainac, Z., Abdullah, Z. (2002) Briquetting of palm fibre and shell from the processing of palm nuts to palm oil. Biomass and Bioenergy, 22 505-509. 

Palm nuts High mannose content Not detennined... 

Other things being equal, rank the following materials in order of their desirability as raw-materials sources for detergent manufacture coconut, soybean, cotton, palm nuts, beef fat, coal, cmde oil, ohves, and natural gas. Explain briefly... 

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