Prospective application of palm oil mill boiler ash as a biosorbent: effect of microwave irradiation and palm oil mill effluent decolorization by adsorption

• Main Authors: Hamzah, Muhammad Hazwan, Ahmad Asri, Muhammad Fitri, Che Man, Hasfalina, Mohammed, Abdulsalam
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2019
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38253/1/38253.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38253/; https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/18/3453
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Common conventional biological treatment methods fail to decolorize palm oil mill effluent (POME). The present study focused on using the abundant palm oil mill boiler (POMB) ashes for POME decolorization. The POMB ashes were subjected to microwave irradiation and chemical treatment using H2SO4. The...