Pretreated palm oil clinker as an attached growth media for organic matter removal from synthetic domestic wastewater in a sequencing batch reactor

Attached-growth systems are biological wastewater treatment processes with biomass attached to a media for organic matter and nutrient removal from wastewater. In this regard, bioreactors containing biocarriers have been successful by far with few limitations. The impact of bio-carrier materials typ...

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Main Authors: Al-dhawi, B.N.S., Kutty, S.R.M., Ghaleb, A.A.S., Almahbashi, N.M.Y., Saeed, A.A.H., Al-Mekhlafi, A.-B.A., Alsaeedi, Y.A.A., Jagaba, A.H.
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spelling oai:scholars.utp.edu.my:342532023-01-09T04:56:14Z http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/34253/ Pretreated palm oil clinker as an attached growth media for organic matter removal from synthetic domestic wastewater in a sequencing batch reactor Al-dhawi, B.N.S. Kutty, S.R.M. Ghaleb, A.A.S. Almahbashi, N.M.Y. Saeed, A.A.H. Al-Mekhlafi, A.-B.A. Alsaeedi, Y.A.A. Jagaba, A.H. Attached-growth systems are biological wastewater treatment processes with biomass attached to a media for organic matter and nutrient removal from wastewater. In this regard, bioreactors containing biocarriers have been successful by far with few limitations. The impact of bio-carrier materials type and properties on wastewater treatment is one important aspect that needs attention. Different synthetic materials have been utilized. However, this study utilized waste palm oil clinker (POC) as a biocarrier in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) for syntheticdomestic wastewater treatment. This is to work in line with the attainment of sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this study, the POC was used as a biocarrier submerged in the aeration tank of bioreactor A of an attached growth system. Whereas the bioreactor B acts as a control. The overall working volume of the bioreactor systems was 10 L each. The treatment efficiency was measured by differing the hydraulic retention time (HRT) while organic contaminants were monitored. The HRT was varied at 6, 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours with the organic loading rate (OLR) kept constant at 550 mg/L.d. At all conditions of HRT (6�72 hours), minimum and maximum COD removals were up to 80 and 95.4 respectively. The influence of HRT was found to be more affected. Several biokinetic models, that includes the First order and Stover-Kincannon, were fitted to the steady-state data collected at different HRTs. The COD R2 values of 0.9096 and 0.9269 were obtained for reactors A and B, respectively. The maximum removal rate constant (μmax) and the saturation value constant (KB) for the Stover-Kincannon, were observed as 0.0005 g/L.d and 1 g/L.d, respectively for the bioreactor A. Throughout the study, POC incorporated SBR system demonstrated higher treatment efficiency compared to the control reactor in terms of COD removal. Thus, findings from this study have the potential to answer SDGs 6, 9, and 14. © 2022 The Authors 2023 Article NonPeerReviewed Al-dhawi, B.N.S. and Kutty, S.R.M. and Ghaleb, A.A.S. and Almahbashi, N.M.Y. and Saeed, A.A.H. and Al-Mekhlafi, A.-B.A. and Alsaeedi, Y.A.A. and Jagaba, A.H. (2023) Pretreated palm oil clinker as an attached growth media for organic matter removal from synthetic domestic wastewater in a sequencing batch reactor. Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 7. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85145320270&doi=10.1016%2fj.cscee.2022.100294&partnerID=40&md5=b82a574b4c33cfd09c4546f203f0d6ce 10.1016/j.cscee.2022.100294 10.1016/j.cscee.2022.100294 10.1016/j.cscee.2022.100294
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description Attached-growth systems are biological wastewater treatment processes with biomass attached to a media for organic matter and nutrient removal from wastewater. In this regard, bioreactors containing biocarriers have been successful by far with few limitations. The impact of bio-carrier materials type and properties on wastewater treatment is one important aspect that needs attention. Different synthetic materials have been utilized. However, this study utilized waste palm oil clinker (POC) as a biocarrier in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) for syntheticdomestic wastewater treatment. This is to work in line with the attainment of sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this study, the POC was used as a biocarrier submerged in the aeration tank of bioreactor A of an attached growth system. Whereas the bioreactor B acts as a control. The overall working volume of the bioreactor systems was 10 L each. The treatment efficiency was measured by differing the hydraulic retention time (HRT) while organic contaminants were monitored. The HRT was varied at 6, 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours with the organic loading rate (OLR) kept constant at 550 mg/L.d. At all conditions of HRT (6�72 hours), minimum and maximum COD removals were up to 80 and 95.4 respectively. The influence of HRT was found to be more affected. Several biokinetic models, that includes the First order and Stover-Kincannon, were fitted to the steady-state data collected at different HRTs. The COD R2 values of 0.9096 and 0.9269 were obtained for reactors A and B, respectively. The maximum removal rate constant (μmax) and the saturation value constant (KB) for the Stover-Kincannon, were observed as 0.0005 g/L.d and 1 g/L.d, respectively for the bioreactor A. Throughout the study, POC incorporated SBR system demonstrated higher treatment efficiency compared to the control reactor in terms of COD removal. Thus, findings from this study have the potential to answer SDGs 6, 9, and 14. © 2022 The Authors
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author Al-dhawi, B.N.S.
Kutty, S.R.M.
Ghaleb, A.A.S.
Almahbashi, N.M.Y.
Saeed, A.A.H.
Al-Mekhlafi, A.-B.A.
Alsaeedi, Y.A.A.
Jagaba, A.H.
spellingShingle Al-dhawi, B.N.S.
Kutty, S.R.M.
Ghaleb, A.A.S.
Almahbashi, N.M.Y.
Saeed, A.A.H.
Al-Mekhlafi, A.-B.A.
Alsaeedi, Y.A.A.
Jagaba, A.H.
Pretreated palm oil clinker as an attached growth media for organic matter removal from synthetic domestic wastewater in a sequencing batch reactor
author_facet Al-dhawi, B.N.S.
Kutty, S.R.M.
Ghaleb, A.A.S.
Almahbashi, N.M.Y.
Saeed, A.A.H.
Al-Mekhlafi, A.-B.A.
Alsaeedi, Y.A.A.
Jagaba, A.H.
author_sort Al-dhawi, B.N.S.
title Pretreated palm oil clinker as an attached growth media for organic matter removal from synthetic domestic wastewater in a sequencing batch reactor
title_short Pretreated palm oil clinker as an attached growth media for organic matter removal from synthetic domestic wastewater in a sequencing batch reactor
title_full Pretreated palm oil clinker as an attached growth media for organic matter removal from synthetic domestic wastewater in a sequencing batch reactor
title_fullStr Pretreated palm oil clinker as an attached growth media for organic matter removal from synthetic domestic wastewater in a sequencing batch reactor
title_full_unstemmed Pretreated palm oil clinker as an attached growth media for organic matter removal from synthetic domestic wastewater in a sequencing batch reactor
title_sort pretreated palm oil clinker as an attached growth media for organic matter removal from synthetic domestic wastewater in a sequencing batch reactor
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