Tertiary treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME) using hydrogen peroxide photolysis method

Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is in the form of highly concentrated dark brown colloidal suspension. Despite of being treated using biological treatment, the wastewater is still coloured and indicates the remaining of significant concentrations of organics in the effluent discharge. Hence, tertiary...

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Main Author: Abdullah, Shakila
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/9582/1/ShakilaAbdullahMFKA2008.pdf
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description Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is in the form of highly concentrated dark brown colloidal suspension. Despite of being treated using biological treatment, the wastewater is still coloured and indicates the remaining of significant concentrations of organics in the effluent discharge. Hence, tertiary treatment is required to further improve the quality of the effluent. Hydrogen peroxide photolysis (UVIH202) is one of the advanced oxidation process (AOP) that can be an option to treat the biologically treated POME (BT-POME). Experiments were conducted to investigate the removal of colour and COD in order to assess the effectiveness and feasibility of (UVIH20 2) catalytic system for tertiary treatment of POME. The operating parameters such as hydrogen peroxide dosage, pH value and initial BT-POME concentrations were evaluated. The removal process could be fitted by the zeroth orger for COD and second order kinetics for colour. The efficiency of colour and COD removal ranged from 7.3%-61.3% and 7.4%-61.1% respectively. Examination of the effect showed the maximum removal could be achieved under optimal conditions of H202 dosage of 250 mgIL and pH of 7.5. In general, the three factors mentioned earlier affect the performance of the process and discussed in the report. Further study is needed to improve the performance of UVIH202 process in treating BT-POME.
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spelling utm.eprints-95822018-06-29T21:51:02Z http://eprints.utm.my/9582/ Tertiary treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME) using hydrogen peroxide photolysis method Abdullah, Shakila GE Environmental Sciences TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is in the form of highly concentrated dark brown colloidal suspension. Despite of being treated using biological treatment, the wastewater is still coloured and indicates the remaining of significant concentrations of organics in the effluent discharge. Hence, tertiary treatment is required to further improve the quality of the effluent. Hydrogen peroxide photolysis (UVIH202) is one of the advanced oxidation process (AOP) that can be an option to treat the biologically treated POME (BT-POME). Experiments were conducted to investigate the removal of colour and COD in order to assess the effectiveness and feasibility of (UVIH20 2) catalytic system for tertiary treatment of POME. The operating parameters such as hydrogen peroxide dosage, pH value and initial BT-POME concentrations were evaluated. The removal process could be fitted by the zeroth orger for COD and second order kinetics for colour. The efficiency of colour and COD removal ranged from 7.3%-61.3% and 7.4%-61.1% respectively. Examination of the effect showed the maximum removal could be achieved under optimal conditions of H202 dosage of 250 mgIL and pH of 7.5. In general, the three factors mentioned earlier affect the performance of the process and discussed in the report. Further study is needed to improve the performance of UVIH202 process in treating BT-POME. 2008-11 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/9582/1/ShakilaAbdullahMFKA2008.pdf Abdullah, Shakila (2008) Tertiary treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME) using hydrogen peroxide photolysis method. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering.
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Tertiary treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME) using hydrogen peroxide photolysis method
title Tertiary treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME) using hydrogen peroxide photolysis method
title_full Tertiary treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME) using hydrogen peroxide photolysis method
title_fullStr Tertiary treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME) using hydrogen peroxide photolysis method
title_full_unstemmed Tertiary treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME) using hydrogen peroxide photolysis method
title_short Tertiary treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME) using hydrogen peroxide photolysis method
title_sort tertiary treatment of palm oil mill effluent pome using hydrogen peroxide photolysis method
topic GE Environmental Sciences
TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
url http://eprints.utm.my/9582/1/ShakilaAbdullahMFKA2008.pdf
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