Avaliação agronômica, tecnológica e laboratorial de cultivares de palma de óleo irrigada em Porto Nacional-TO

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the performance of four irrigated palm cultivars oil production in two harvest seasons in Cerrado conditions, evaluate the effect of oil extraction method on the extracted oil content, as well as formulate a protocol to a method for cheaply and efficiently focused on the extraction of palm oil industry. The data collection method was divided into two phases: the first phase consisted in the collection of bibliographic data, enabling the development of the theoretical framework, the implementation of the experiment and analysis of the results found in the experimental evaluation. In the second phase we collected material in the field, in Porto Nacional- TO, which was conducted the experiment evaluated. The experiment consisted of four cultivars of palm: (BRS C 2528, BRS C 2501 C BRS 2001 BRS 2301). Data collection for the evaluation of the experiment occurred with crop of palm bunches in the fruit ripening stage, and performed quantitative analysis of the collected data. Then fruits were weighed, identified and stored in a freezer at oil extraction was observed that the cluster formation time influences the obtained oil content and yield did not have significant differences in estimated oil content and this is because the material have the same genetic origin. Laboratory tests were performed in order to optimize the method used in the oil palm industry and that were held palm oil extraction solvent hexane extraction tests of different times, different particle sizes used in the extraction process, evaluation of moisture effect on weight oil obtained hygroscopicity test to assess whether there was a need desiccator use the extracted oil weighing process.