Towards cleaner production in palm oil industry: Advanced treatment of biologically-treated POME using palm kernel shell-based adsorbent

• Main Authors: Tan, Yan Ying, Bello, Mustapha Mohammed, Abdul Raman, Abdul Aziz
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2021
• Subjects: TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/35959/; https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85111166807&doi=10.1016%2fj.clet.2021.100079&partnerID=40&md5=2ddcae51d8089853be755194a08b9be1; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2021.100079

Palm oil processing generates enormous amount of wastewater, the palm oil mill effluent (POME), containing various recalcitrant pollutants. The biological processes commonly employed to treat POME often fail to achieve treatment levels required for safe disposal or recycling of the effluent, prompti...