Oil palm's empty fruit bunch as a sorbent material in filter system for oil-spill clean up
Oil pollution such as diesel poses a significant threat to the environment. Due to this, there is increasing interest in using natural materials mainly from agricultural waste as organic oil spill sorbents. Oil palm’s empty fruit bunch (EFB), a cost-effective material, non-toxic, renewable resource,...
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| author | Puasa, Nurul Aini Ahmad, Siti Aqlima Zakaria, Nur Nadhirah Abdul Khalil, Khalilah Taufik, Siti Hajar Zulkharnain, Azham Azmi, Alyza Azzura Gomez-Fuentes, Claudio Chiew, Yen Wong Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi |
| author_facet | Puasa, Nurul Aini Ahmad, Siti Aqlima Zakaria, Nur Nadhirah Abdul Khalil, Khalilah Taufik, Siti Hajar Zulkharnain, Azham Azmi, Alyza Azzura Gomez-Fuentes, Claudio Chiew, Yen Wong Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi |
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| description | Oil pollution such as diesel poses a significant threat to the environment. Due to this, there is increasing interest in using natural materials mainly from agricultural waste as organic oil spill sorbents. Oil palm’s empty fruit bunch (EFB), a cost-effective material, non-toxic, renewable resource, and abundantly available in Malaysia, contains cellulosic materials that have been proven to show a good result in pollution treatment. This study evaluated the optimum screening part of EFB that efficiently absorbs oil and the physicochemical characterisation of untreated and treated EFB fibre using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The treatment conditions were optimised using one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT), which identified optimal treatment conditions of 170 °C, 20 min, 0.1 g/cm3, and 10% diesel, resulting in 23 mL of oil absorbed. The predicted model was highly significant in statistical Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and confirmed that all the parameters (temperature, time, packing density, and diesel concentration) significantly influenced the oil absorbed. The predicted values in RSM were 175 °C, 22.5 min, 0.095 g/cm3, and 10%, which resulted in 24 mL of oil absorbed. Using the experimental values generated by RSM, 175 °C, 22.5 min, 0.095 g/cm3, and 10%, the highest oil absorption achieved was 24.33 mL. This study provides further evidence, as the data suggested that RSM provided a better approach to obtain a high efficiency of oil absorbed. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-1023652023-05-22T08:17:29Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/102365/ Oil palm's empty fruit bunch as a sorbent material in filter system for oil-spill clean up Puasa, Nurul Aini Ahmad, Siti Aqlima Zakaria, Nur Nadhirah Abdul Khalil, Khalilah Taufik, Siti Hajar Zulkharnain, Azham Azmi, Alyza Azzura Gomez-Fuentes, Claudio Chiew, Yen Wong Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi Oil pollution such as diesel poses a significant threat to the environment. Due to this, there is increasing interest in using natural materials mainly from agricultural waste as organic oil spill sorbents. Oil palm’s empty fruit bunch (EFB), a cost-effective material, non-toxic, renewable resource, and abundantly available in Malaysia, contains cellulosic materials that have been proven to show a good result in pollution treatment. This study evaluated the optimum screening part of EFB that efficiently absorbs oil and the physicochemical characterisation of untreated and treated EFB fibre using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The treatment conditions were optimised using one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT), which identified optimal treatment conditions of 170 °C, 20 min, 0.1 g/cm3, and 10% diesel, resulting in 23 mL of oil absorbed. The predicted model was highly significant in statistical Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and confirmed that all the parameters (temperature, time, packing density, and diesel concentration) significantly influenced the oil absorbed. The predicted values in RSM were 175 °C, 22.5 min, 0.095 g/cm3, and 10%, which resulted in 24 mL of oil absorbed. Using the experimental values generated by RSM, 175 °C, 22.5 min, 0.095 g/cm3, and 10%, the highest oil absorption achieved was 24.33 mL. This study provides further evidence, as the data suggested that RSM provided a better approach to obtain a high efficiency of oil absorbed. MDPI AG 2022-01-04 Article PeerReviewed Puasa, Nurul Aini and Ahmad, Siti Aqlima and Zakaria, Nur Nadhirah and Abdul Khalil, Khalilah and Taufik, Siti Hajar and Zulkharnain, Azham and Azmi, Alyza Azzura and Gomez-Fuentes, Claudio and Chiew, Yen Wong and Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi (2022) Oil palm's empty fruit bunch as a sorbent material in filter system for oil-spill clean up. Plants, 11 (1). art. no. 127. pp. 1-19. ISSN 2223-7747 https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/11/1/127 10.3390/plants11010127 |
| spellingShingle | Puasa, Nurul Aini Ahmad, Siti Aqlima Zakaria, Nur Nadhirah Abdul Khalil, Khalilah Taufik, Siti Hajar Zulkharnain, Azham Azmi, Alyza Azzura Gomez-Fuentes, Claudio Chiew, Yen Wong Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi Oil palm's empty fruit bunch as a sorbent material in filter system for oil-spill clean up |
| title | Oil palm's empty fruit bunch as a sorbent material in filter system for oil-spill clean up |
| title_full | Oil palm's empty fruit bunch as a sorbent material in filter system for oil-spill clean up |
| title_fullStr | Oil palm's empty fruit bunch as a sorbent material in filter system for oil-spill clean up |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oil palm's empty fruit bunch as a sorbent material in filter system for oil-spill clean up |
| title_short | Oil palm's empty fruit bunch as a sorbent material in filter system for oil-spill clean up |
| title_sort | oil palm s empty fruit bunch as a sorbent material in filter system for oil spill clean up |
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