Photocatalytic treatment technology for palm oil mill effluent (POME) – A review
This review provides insight into various techniques utilized for the treatments of palm oil milleffluents (POME). Generally, POME treatment is achieved in two ways, these are (1) pre treatment stages, involving majorly the reduction of oil and grease and suspended matter and (2) an advanced treatm...
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| Language: | en |
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Elsevier B.V.
2016
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/50314/1/Photocatalytic%20treatment.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/50314/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957582016300799 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2016.05.020 |
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| Summary: | This review provides insight into various techniques utilized for the treatments of palm oil milleffluents (POME). Generally, POME treatment is achieved in two ways, these are (1) pre treatment stages, involving majorly the reduction of oil and grease and suspended matter
and (2) an advanced treatment stage, in which wastewater contaminants (e.g. BOD, COD) are reduced to standard discharge limits. Different methods utilized in the treatment of POME such as coagulation-flocculation, anaerobic, aerobic and membrane technology are
explained fully and recent trends in their advancement and improvement are outlined. Though, various pilot or industrial scale treatment plants have been reported in scientific literature for POME treatments methods such as anaerobic, aerobic and membrane technology, the literature is still scarce for application of photocatalytic degradation technology to POME treatment as the technology is still in development stage and has not been fully
utilized on an industrial scale in palm oil mill industries. This is mainly as a result of inad equate investigation involving POME degradation. The review presented here is focused on photocatalytic degradation technology and reflects published outcomes with the aim of offering the technique as an attractive and sustainable process units. Also the potential of the process to replace some of thewell-known separation and degradation technologies has
been highlighted at advanced treatment stage for POME. |
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