TY - JOUR
T1 - Advances in pretreatment technology for handling the palm oil mill effluent
T2 - Challenges and prospects
AU - Ratnasari, Anisa
AU - Syafiuddin, Achmad
AU - Boopathy, Raj
AU - Malik, Sana
AU - Aamer Mehmood, Muhammad
AU - Amalia, Rizki
AU - Dwi Prastyo, Dedy
AU - Syamimi Zaidi, Nur
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - The palm oil mill effluent (POME) from palm milling oil activities is discharged into various water bodies which poses several environmental problems including turbidity, increases COD and BOD, adds oil and grease, increases total nitrogen, and other pollutants. Therefore, it requires effective treatment to remove the pollutants before disposal. The objective was to critically discuss the performance of POME pretreatments along with their limitations. To offer a coverage on the present less efficient technologies, the opportunities and challenges of advanced pretreatments that combine magnetic materials and natural composites as adsorbents are comprehensively reviewed here. Moreover, potential of various magnetic materials for POME pretreatment has been described. Several existing pretreatment methods such as physical pretreatments, chemical pretreatments, coagulation-flocculation, and adsorption can remove pollutant content from POME with certain limitations and the use of magnetic composite adsorbents can enhance the treatment efficiency.
AB - The palm oil mill effluent (POME) from palm milling oil activities is discharged into various water bodies which poses several environmental problems including turbidity, increases COD and BOD, adds oil and grease, increases total nitrogen, and other pollutants. Therefore, it requires effective treatment to remove the pollutants before disposal. The objective was to critically discuss the performance of POME pretreatments along with their limitations. To offer a coverage on the present less efficient technologies, the opportunities and challenges of advanced pretreatments that combine magnetic materials and natural composites as adsorbents are comprehensively reviewed here. Moreover, potential of various magnetic materials for POME pretreatment has been described. Several existing pretreatment methods such as physical pretreatments, chemical pretreatments, coagulation-flocculation, and adsorption can remove pollutant content from POME with certain limitations and the use of magnetic composite adsorbents can enhance the treatment efficiency.
KW - Magnetic composites
KW - Palm oil mill effluent
KW - Pretreatment technologies
KW - Treatment efficiency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118321379&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126239
DO - 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126239
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34737137
AN - SCOPUS:85118321379
SN - 0960-8524
VL - 344
JO - Bioresource Technology
JF - Bioresource Technology
M1 - 126239
ER -
