Development of Bench-Scale Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System for Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent

The oil palm industries generate large amounts of effluent that can cause pollution and, as a result, pose serious threats to the environment. Recently, membrane distillation (MD) has been identified as a potential candidate for treatment of palm oil mill effluents (POME). This is because the releas...

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Main Authors: Yi, C. Wan, Xin, N. Hwee, N. M., Mohktar
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/40848/1/Development%20of%20Bench-Scale%20Direct%20Contact%20Membrane%20Distillation%20System%20for%20Treatment%20of%20Palm%20Oil%20Mill%20Effluent.pdf
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/40848/
https://doi.org/10.11113/amst.v27n2.271
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description The oil palm industries generate large amounts of effluent that can cause pollution and, as a result, pose serious threats to the environment. Recently, membrane distillation (MD) has been identified as a potential candidate for treatment of palm oil mill effluents (POME). This is because the release of POME at high temperature may reduce the need to preheat the effluent prior to operation. The objective of this article is to manufacture a bench-scale MD system and assess the performance of the system in POME treatment. This project started with the design of a process and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) and continued with the fabrication part. Subsequently, the performance of the direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) system was tested using POME as a feed solution. Three different feed temperatures (55 °C, 65 °C and 75 °C) were analyzed during the testing. The results obtained show that the permeate flux increased with the increase of feed temperature with the highest flux is 10.76 kg/m2.hr. More than 85% of pollutants including ammonia nitrogen, color, chemical oxygen demand (COD) and turbidity were rejected. This shows that the system is capable of treating POME and producing high quality permeate water.
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spelling my.ump.umpir.408482024-04-02T07:44:52Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/40848/ Development of Bench-Scale Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System for Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent Yi, C. Wan Xin, N. Hwee N. M., Mohktar TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The oil palm industries generate large amounts of effluent that can cause pollution and, as a result, pose serious threats to the environment. Recently, membrane distillation (MD) has been identified as a potential candidate for treatment of palm oil mill effluents (POME). This is because the release of POME at high temperature may reduce the need to preheat the effluent prior to operation. The objective of this article is to manufacture a bench-scale MD system and assess the performance of the system in POME treatment. This project started with the design of a process and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) and continued with the fabrication part. Subsequently, the performance of the direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) system was tested using POME as a feed solution. Three different feed temperatures (55 °C, 65 °C and 75 °C) were analyzed during the testing. The results obtained show that the permeate flux increased with the increase of feed temperature with the highest flux is 10.76 kg/m2.hr. More than 85% of pollutants including ammonia nitrogen, color, chemical oxygen demand (COD) and turbidity were rejected. This shows that the system is capable of treating POME and producing high quality permeate water. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2023 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/40848/1/Development%20of%20Bench-Scale%20Direct%20Contact%20Membrane%20Distillation%20System%20for%20Treatment%20of%20Palm%20Oil%20Mill%20Effluent.pdf Yi, C. Wan and Xin, N. Hwee and N. M., Mohktar (2023) Development of Bench-Scale Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System for Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent. Journal of Applied Membrane Science & Technology, 27 (2). pp. 103-113. ISSN 2600-9226. (Published) https://doi.org/10.11113/amst.v27n2.271 10.11113/amst.v27n2.271
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Yi, C. Wan
Xin, N. Hwee
N. M., Mohktar
Development of Bench-Scale Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System for Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent
title Development of Bench-Scale Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System for Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent
title_full Development of Bench-Scale Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System for Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent
title_fullStr Development of Bench-Scale Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System for Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent
title_full_unstemmed Development of Bench-Scale Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System for Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent
title_short Development of Bench-Scale Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System for Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent
title_sort development of bench-scale direct contact membrane distillation system for treatment of palm oil mill effluent
topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/40848/1/Development%20of%20Bench-Scale%20Direct%20Contact%20Membrane%20Distillation%20System%20for%20Treatment%20of%20Palm%20Oil%20Mill%20Effluent.pdf
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https://doi.org/10.11113/amst.v27n2.271
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