Circular Economy and Industry 4.0 Technology Integration Framework for the Oil Palm Industry

Palm oil is a sustainable resource with high potential to substitute fossil fuels as the raw material for cleaner energy and chemical production. The oil palm industry is highly dependent on manual labour operation, especially its upstream operation, i.e., plantation. With the rapid development of p...

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Autores principales:	Chun Hsion Lim, Yik Wei Loh, Dominic C.Y. Foo, Wendy P.Q. Ng, Hon Loong Lam
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Publicado:	AIDIC Servizi S.r.l. 2021
Materias:	Chemical engineering TP155-156 Computer engineering. Computer hardware TK7885-7895
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bfe22d0f52b84e1cb525a8cd7d721b932021-11-15T21:46:54ZCircular Economy and Industry 4.0 Technology Integration Framework for the Oil Palm Industry10.3303/CET21882112283-9216https://doaj.org/article/bfe22d0f52b84e1cb525a8cd7d721b932021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/12004https://doaj.org/toc/2283-9216Palm oil is a sustainable resource with high potential to substitute fossil fuels as the raw material for cleaner energy and chemical production. The oil palm industry is highly dependent on manual labour operation, especially its upstream operation, i.e., plantation. With the rapid development of process automation, robotic, internet-of-things (IoT) and big data analysis, adaptation of Industry Revolution 4.0 (IR4) has proven to be a great strategy to improve process efficiency. Each of the IR4 component/technology may be integrated for its specific feature, such as robotic drone with artificial intelligence data analysis to process captured image. Such technology could be further upgraded with more IR4 technologies integration. This paper proposes a novel circular economy framework to evaluate the potential of implementing IR4 technologies in the oil palm industry. Upon identify viable IR4 technologies for the industry, the cost of investment between the new and existing technologies were compared. Return on investment (ROI) and capital investment were used as the selection criteria to assist the palm oil stakeholders in the decision-making process. Graphical pinch analysis tool is adapted to identify an optimum solution. A case study involving oil palm plantation in Malaysia is analysed. An investment on spray drone for pesticide application was proven to have higher ROI, as compared to the spray tractor and existing practise of using knapsack sprayer. While another drone application for tree health and fruit monitoring has a positive ROI too, it is not possible to invest in both technologies due to budget limitation. Based on circular economy concept, investment into the spray drone and modified drone with smart spectrometer for tree health and fruit monitoring are better strategies to minimise IR4 investment.Chun Hsion LimYik Wei LohDominic C.Y. FooWendy P.Q. NgHon Loong LamAIDIC Servizi S.r.l.articleChemical engineeringTP155-156Computer engineering. Computer hardwareTK7885-7895ENChemical Engineering Transactions, Vol 88 (2021)
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description	Palm oil is a sustainable resource with high potential to substitute fossil fuels as the raw material for cleaner energy and chemical production. The oil palm industry is highly dependent on manual labour operation, especially its upstream operation, i.e., plantation. With the rapid development of process automation, robotic, internet-of-things (IoT) and big data analysis, adaptation of Industry Revolution 4.0 (IR4) has proven to be a great strategy to improve process efficiency. Each of the IR4 component/technology may be integrated for its specific feature, such as robotic drone with artificial intelligence data analysis to process captured image. Such technology could be further upgraded with more IR4 technologies integration. This paper proposes a novel circular economy framework to evaluate the potential of implementing IR4 technologies in the oil palm industry. Upon identify viable IR4 technologies for the industry, the cost of investment between the new and existing technologies were compared. Return on investment (ROI) and capital investment were used as the selection criteria to assist the palm oil stakeholders in the decision-making process. Graphical pinch analysis tool is adapted to identify an optimum solution. A case study involving oil palm plantation in Malaysia is analysed. An investment on spray drone for pesticide application was proven to have higher ROI, as compared to the spray tractor and existing practise of using knapsack sprayer. While another drone application for tree health and fruit monitoring has a positive ROI too, it is not possible to invest in both technologies due to budget limitation. Based on circular economy concept, investment into the spray drone and modified drone with smart spectrometer for tree health and fruit monitoring are better strategies to minimise IR4 investment.
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author	Chun Hsion Lim Yik Wei Loh Dominic C.Y. Foo Wendy P.Q. Ng Hon Loong Lam
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title	Circular Economy and Industry 4.0 Technology Integration Framework for the Oil Palm Industry
title_short	Circular Economy and Industry 4.0 Technology Integration Framework for the Oil Palm Industry
title_full	Circular Economy and Industry 4.0 Technology Integration Framework for the Oil Palm Industry
title_fullStr	Circular Economy and Industry 4.0 Technology Integration Framework for the Oil Palm Industry
title_full_unstemmed	Circular Economy and Industry 4.0 Technology Integration Framework for the Oil Palm Industry
title_sort	circular economy and industry 4.0 technology integration framework for the oil palm industry
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Circular Economy and Industry 4.0 Technology Integration Framework for the Oil Palm Industry

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