Palm Fatty Acid Distillate

palm fatty acid distillate (pfad) is a by-product of refining crude palm oil. pfad is obtained as a by-product or distillate during the palm oil refining process. pfad is a light brown semi-solid at room temperature melting to a brown liquid on heating. pfad’s comprise mainly of free fatty acid (ffa) (>80%) with palmitic acid and oleic acid as the major components.