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Anaerobic co-cultivation of multialgal species with Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches for mill effluent treatment and biomethane production
Ashfaq Ahmad1, Syed Muhammad Usman Shah2, Azizul Buang3, Mohd Azmuddin Abdullah4.
This study investigated the optimization of anaerobic co-cultivation of multi-algal
species with Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches (OPEFB) for Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME)
treatment and biomethane production. The highest removal of COD (95-98%), BOD
(90-98%), TOC (81-86%) and TN (78-80%) were achieved after 7 days anaerobic
treatment with the presence of microalgae. The highest biomethane (4,651.9 mL
CH4/L POME/day) and the specific biogas production rate (0.124 m3/kg COD/day)
with CO2 (2,265.9mL CO2/L POME/day) were achieved by co-cultivating N. oculata
and Chlorella sp. (each at 1 mL/mL POME) with OPEFB (0.12 g/mL POME). The
combination of N. oculata (2 mL/mL POME) with T. suecica or Chlorella sp. (each at
1 mL/mL POME), and OPEFB (0.12 g/mL POME) obtained high biomethane (4,018.9
mL CH4/L POME /day) but lower biogas (0.097 m3/kg COD/day) and CO2 (2,079.5mL
CO2/L POME/day). Generally, low OPEFB and having all the three strains or increasing
the level of any (2 mL/mL POME) especially T. suecica, could lower biomethane (870-
953 mL CH4/L POME/day) and CO2 (803-854mL CO2/L POME/day), with the biogas
around 0.08-0.09 m3/kg COD/day. The optimum conditions were predicted by
Response Surface Methodology and the multiple coefficients of determination, r2, of
86% suggests good agreement between experimental and predicted values.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
- Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
- Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
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