Treatment of palm oil mill effluent using biological sequencing batch reactor system

• Main Authors: Fun, C.W., Haq, M.R.U., M Kutty, Shamsul Rahman
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/17/1/paper.pdf; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/17/

Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) is known to cause serious environmental hazards due to its high biochemical (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) if disposed without proper treatment. Moreover, the processing of palm fruit causes POME to have fibre and husk resulting in high level of total suspended...