Palm oil mill effluent (POME) has been identified as one of the major sources of aquatic pollution in Malaysia. due to its high strength and economic importance. With more than 330 palm oil mills in operation, Malaysia produces some 10.6 million tonnes of crude palm oil annually, accounting for 52% of the total world production, and concomitantly generates some 27 x 10 m POME. To meet with the ...

Palm oil is one of the most important agroindustries in Malaysia. Huge quantities of palm oil mill effluent (POME) pose a great threat to aqueous environment due to its very high COD. To make full use of discharged wastes, the integrated "zero discharge" pilot-scale industrial plant comprising "pretreatment-anaerobic and aerobic process-membrane separation" was continuously operated for 1 year....

A pilot-scale production of lipase using palm oil mill effluent (POME) as a fermentation basal medium was carried out, and parameters for immobilization of the produced lipase were optimized. Lipase production in a 300-L bioreactor was performed using two proposed strategies, constant power per volume (P/V) and constant tip speed. Moreover, lipase immobilization on different materials was also ...

Waste oil industry has a great potential use, as 77% oil yield are an untapped waste that still has a high economic value as a base for the oleochemical industry, one of which is β-carotene. The study was conducted to optimize the extraction of carotenoids from Crude Palm Oil (CPO) and Palm Oil Mill Effluent waste (POME) conducted by column chromatography and extraction method with a single enz...

Palm oil milled effluent (POME) is one of the most environmental concerned industrial wastewater owing to its complex structure. Melanoidin a highly stable content in POME that caused dark color. In this study, Galactomyces sp. rich consortium TM11 with high laccase activity was used remove contaminated melanoidin from raw POME. Besides, single chamber ceramic microbial fuel cell (sCMFC) develo...

The rising global demand for palm oil and its associated products has led to increased numbers of palm oil refineries with its attendant effluent discharge. Many researches have confirmed the ecological disruptive potentiality of Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME), still further attention has to be directed at POME’s potential genotoxicity. The present study has made physico-chemical and genotoxicit...

Protein synthesis by intact Bartlett pear fruits was studied with ripening as measured by flesh softening, chlorophyll degradation, respiration, ethylene synthesis, and malic enzyme activity. Protein synthesis is required for normal ripening, and the proteins synthesized early in the ripening process are, in fact, enzymes required for ripening. (14)C-Phenylalanine is differentially incorporated...

Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is a by-product of palm production. POME can be considered as harmful waste without any treatment. POME, however, has the potential to source low-cost carbon for lipid This study aims isolate oleaginous fungi from and evaluate ability production capacity purified isolates commercial strains (Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus oryzae Rhizopus spp.) POME. converted into ...

Vertical soil moisture profiles based on the principle of maximum entropy (POME) were validated using field and model data and applied to guide an irrigation cycle over a maize field in north central Alabama (USA). The results demonstrate that a simple two-constraint entropy model under the assumption of a uniform initial soil moisture distribution can simulate most soil moisture profiles that ...