Oil Removal From Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) by Using Kenaf Core (Hibiscus Cannabinus)

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10.2991/aer.k.201229.022How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Palm oil mill effluent (POME), oil removal, adsorption, adsorbent, kenaf core

Abstract

Increasing attention on the environmental issue especially the wastewater from the palm oil mill effluent (POME) has become one of the great concern to many researchers. The excessive amount of untreated POME may cause the reduction of oxygen and sunlight in the water, which in turn affects the aquatic life. The availability of the conventional and current treatments such as ponding system will take more retention time and sometimes fails to obey the standard regulation discharge limit set by the Department of Environmental (DOE) Malaysia. Thus, in this research, the adsorption technology was chosen to treat POME due to its effectiveness, low cost with simple treatment operation. The kenaf core (Hibiscus Cannabinus) was proposed as a potential adsorbent to removal the oil from POME due to its abundance availability in Malaysia. The objective of this research was to study the characteristic of raw kenaf core fibre by using FTIR and SEM analysis. The effect of mass of raw kenaf core fibre used in oil removal from POME was also being investigated. IR spectra showed the appearance of ester stretching (at 1753 cm-1) and C-H stretching of alkane at 2922 and 2853 cm-1. These two functional groups are known for their hydrophobicity and expected to capture the oil. The rough surface was observed with the formation of large pores in the raw kenaf core fibre through the SEM images. The rough surface might have increased the adsorption capacity and the existence of pores might have facilitated the oil entrapment. Utilization of 5.0 g of kenaf core fiber resulted to 78.6% of oil removal efficiency. Meanwhile, the maximum adsorption capacity was achieved at 399.0 mg/g by using 1.0 g of raw kenaf core fibre mass. The raw kenaf core fibre is a potential natural adsorbent to remove the oil from POME.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nor Halaliza Alias
AU  - Luqman Chuah Abdullah
AU  - Thomas Choong Shean Yaw
AU  - Siti Nurul Ain Md Jamil
AU  - Ahmad Jaril Asis
AU  - Nur Haziqah Rusli
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/30
TI  - Oil Removal From Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) by Using Kenaf Core (Hibiscus Cannabinus)
BT  - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Separation Technology 2020 (ICoST 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 158
EP  - 163
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aer.k.201229.022
DO  - 10.2991/aer.k.201229.022
ID  - Alias2020
ER  -