PHYSICAL AND FUNCTIONAL

DECOMPOSITION OF OIL
PALM MILL
PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION OF OIL PALM MILL
• Our Palm Oil Mill consist of 9 processes which is loading,
sterilizing, stripping, digester, pressing, vibrating,
clarification, purification, and drying to produce the crude
palm oil. From these processes, we need to determine the
machine/equipment regarding to each process. So, that’s
where the physical decomposition comes in. As you can
see here, this is the diagram of physical decomposition for
our palm oil mill.
• The Physical Decomposition of the system will be
used to help the understanding of the overall
system by dividing the overall complex system
into smaller chunks of subsystems or smaller
group of components that are responsible to
their respective functions.
•After we have all the equipment regarding
to each process, we expand our
understanding for each process by
constructing the functional decomposition.
FUNCTIONAL DECOMPOSITION OF OIL PALM MILL
•The Functional decomposition is also known
as a function structure. A function structure
is a block diagram depicting flows of energy,
material, and signal as labelled arrows
taking paths between function blocks.
• As you can see here, this is the Functional
Decomposition for our palm oil mill.
• Designers use function blocks in the diagram to
represent the transformations done by the system,
assembly, or component, and, label each block by
selecting function names from a predefined set of
transformational verbs.
• As we know, the purpose of Morphology chart is to lay-down the
option to be used to complete the certain function of the system.

• Before we begin to construct morphology chart, we need to have

the physical and functional decomposition to ensure the features
that required tally with each other to achieved the desired
output.

• For example, from functional decomposition, we revise that oil

palm mill require 9 process to produce crude palm oil (CPO).
Those process are:
• We have a different method to achieve the functional purpose
• Loading (Loading Ramp, Intermediate Feeding Line Indexer
and FFB Conveyor)
• Sterilizing (Horizontal, Vertical, Continuous and Tilting)
• Stripper (Open cage Stripper and enclose stripper)
• Digester (Vertical, Horizontal, Hybrid and Man-powered)
• Pressing (Screw press, hydraulic press and double screw
press)
• Vibrating Screen (Circular, linear, ultrasonic and gyratory)
• Clarification (Clarification tank, 3 phase separator CPO
clarification centrifuge, continuous operating clarification,
horizontal and centrifugal oil separator)
• Purification (CPO Purification machine, Oil purifier with
pumping mechanism, vacuum oil purifier, plant-based
product oil purifier and double stage high efficiency vacuum
oil purifier)
• Drying (Vacuum, Electric Oven, Solar Power, Furnace dryer
and Continuous liquid vacuum drying)
• Based on this, we will able to produce multiple concept
based on different option from the morphology chart.

• This will give advantage of being able to visual and plan

multiple concept and design for our oil palm mill project.

• The morphology chart will then be use and link to our

selection process which will finalize our final palm oil mill
concept design.