0086-138 3838 9622Bundles of fresh empty fruit bunches were fed into a RICHI twin-shaft shredder during a customer-requested material trial for a Malaysian palm-residue processor evaluating a 5 t/h EFB pretreatment section.
The test started with the customer’s real problem rather than a complete pellet-line proposal. EFB leaving palm oil processing is bulky, tangled and fibrous. Before drying, finer crushing or densification can be considered, the bunch structure first has to be opened and reduced to a form that can move continuously through downstream equipment.
Four Things the Customer Watched During the Test
1. Feeding behavior
The customer wanted to see whether whole or partially opened bunches could enter the cutting chamber without constant manual intervention. Long fibers make stable feeding more difficult than processing short wood offcuts.
2. Fiber opening
The 5 t/h target refers to the planned coarse-preparation section under the agreed EFB condition. The twin-shaft shredder is expected to open and reduce the bunches; it is not being presented as a machine that produces final hammer-mill particle size.
3. Discharge condition
The customer inspected whether the shredded fiber could be transferred by conveyor without large intact bunches remaining in the stream.
4. Continuous connection
A production machine cannot depend on workers repeatedly pushing EFB into the chamber. RICHI therefore tested the shredder as the center of a possible feeding-and-discharge module.
If the project proceeds, the likely scope will include an infeed conveyor, 5 t/h EFB shredder, discharge conveyor and controls. Moisture reduction and finer grinding would remain separate process stages according to the customer’s final application.
For a Malaysian palm processor, this is a materially different purchasing decision from buying a biomass EFB pellet mill. The immediate investment is in palm empty fruit bunch shredding equipment capable of turning an awkward mill residue into a controllable intermediate material.
The customer will use the trial results to decide whether to purchase the shredder as a standalone machine or extend the order into a modular EFB pretreatment system.
