Characterization of Oily and Non-Oily Natural Sediments in Palm Oil Mill Effluent
Joint Authors
Ismail, Norli
Mohd Omar, A. K.
Ahmad, Anees
Ab Rahman, Nik Norulaini Nik
Alrawi, Reem A.
Source
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-01-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Palm oil is one of the many vegetable oils widely consumed around the world.
The production of palm oil requires voluminous amount of water with the concurrent generation of large amount of wastewater known as palm oil mill effluent (POME).
POME is a mixture of water, oil, and natural sediments (solid particles and fibres).There is a dearth of information on the physical properties of these POME sediments.
This study intends to distinguish the physical properties of oily and non-oily POME sediments which include sediment size, particle size distribution (PSD), sediment shape, sediment surface morphology, and sediment density.
These characterizations are important for future researches because these properties have significant effects on the settling process that occurs either under natural gravity or by coagulations.
It was found that the oily and non-oily POME sediments have different sizes with nonspherical irregular shapes, and because of that, the aspect ratio (AR) and circularity shape factors were adopted to describe the shapes of these sediments.
The results also indicate that the density of oily POME sediment decreases as the sediment size increases.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Alrawi, Reem A.& Ab Rahman, Nik Norulaini Nik& Ahmad, Anees& Ismail, Norli& Mohd Omar, A. K.. 2013. Characterization of Oily and Non-Oily Natural Sediments in Palm Oil Mill Effluent. Journal of Chemistry،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-11.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Alrawi, Reem A.…[et al.]. Characterization of Oily and Non-Oily Natural Sediments in Palm Oil Mill Effluent. Journal of Chemistry No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-11.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Alrawi, Reem A.& Ab Rahman, Nik Norulaini Nik& Ahmad, Anees& Ismail, Norli& Mohd Omar, A. K.. Characterization of Oily and Non-Oily Natural Sediments in Palm Oil Mill Effluent. Journal of Chemistry. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-461558
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-461558