Palm oil - crude (palm oil mill operation)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.8. The product 'palm oil, crude' is produced by means of wet milling in a oil mill producing palm oil, palm kernel oil and palm kernel meal. The crude oil is further refined to become edible or used as it is to produce biodiesel.The palm fruit has a single seed, the palm kernel, protected by a wooden endocarp or shell and surrounded by a fleshy mesocarp or pulp. This fruit produces two types of oil: one extracted from the pulp (palm oil) and the other from the kernel (palm kernel oil). The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.