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Enhancement of volatile fatty acid production from anaerobic treatment of palm oil mill effluent / Lim Jing Xiang

Enhancement of volatile fatty acid production from anaerobic treatment of palm oil mill effluent_Lim Jing Xiang_K4_2019_MYMY
Unit rawatan biologi digunakan secara meluas untuk merawat air sisa berkandungan organic tinggi seperti air sisa kilang minyak sawit (POME). Rawatan yang boleh mengguna semula nutrien berguna daripada air sisa diperlukan untuk meningkatkan kelestarian proses rawatan air sisa. Asid lemak mudah meruap (VFA) berpotensi tinggi untuk pelbagai aplikasi misalnya pengeluaran biogas atau plastik boleh dibiodegrasi. Pemulihan nutrien dalam bentuk gas metana (produk akhir pencernaan anaerobik) telah dikaji dengan meluas tetapi kajian tentang peningkatan VFA (produk perantaraan pencernaan anaerobik) masih terhad. Pengeluaran VFA lebih dipilih daripada pengeluaran biogas kerana VFA boleh digunakan untuk menghasilkan produk yang lebih berharga seperti polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) (sejenis plastik boleh dibiodegrasi). Peningkatan pengeluaran VFA dicapai melalui penghapusan proses metanogenesis. Dalam kajian ini, reaktor kelompok berjujuk digunakan untuk memperkayakan biomas dalam rawatan anaerobic separa POME untuk meningkatkan pengeluaran VFA. SBR bersaiz 8 L dan masa pengekalan hidraulik adalah selama 5 hari. Kepekatan POME suapan mengandungi kira-kira 33400 mgCOD/L. Reaktor anaerobik berjaya meningkatkan pengumpulan VFA kepada 10500 mg/L VFA (kira-kira 43.8% VFA dalam suapan). Analisis populasi mikrob menunjukkan bahawa pertumbuhan metanogen telah ditindas dan tiada gas metana dibebaskan semasa proses rawatan. Tambahan pula, didapati bahawa peningkatan nitrogen ammonia telah meningkatkan jumlah pengeluaran VFA. Lebih kurang 105.7% pengumpulan VFA dicapai pada nisbah COD: N kira-kira 40: 5. Walau bagaimanapun, perencatan pengeluaran VFA berlaku pada kandungan nitrogen ammonia yang lebih daripada 4000 mg/L beban kejutan. Selain itu, efluen dari reaktor peningkatan VFA digunakan sebagai suapan untuk penghasilan PHA. Reaktor aerobic pengeluaran PHA (AE1) menggunakan POME yang telah diperkayakan VFA mampu mencapai pengeluaran kepekatan PHA lebih kurang 3773 mgPHA/L (pengeluaran spesifik kira-kira 0.32 mgPHA/mgVSS). Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa pemulihan VFA berpotensi tinggi untuk menghasilkan plastik boleh dibiodegrasi (PHA). Selain itu, kinetik pertumbuhan mikrob telah dinilai untuk mikroorganisma dalam reaktor peningkatan VFA dan reaktor pengeluaran PHA. Hasil kajian kinetik pertumbuhan digunakan untuk mensimulasikan pengumpualan VFA dan pengeluaran PHA dengan menggunakan perisian MATLAB. _______________________________________________________________________ Biological treatment unit is widely used to treat high organic content wastewater such as palm oil mill effluent (POME). A treatment that can salvage the useful nutrient from the wastewater is needed to enhance the sustainability of the wastewater treatment process. Volatile fatty acid (VFA) has high potential to be applied on many application such as production of biogas or biodegradable plastic. The recovery of nutrient in the form of methane gas (end-product of anaerobic digestion) was well researched but the study on the enhancement of volatile fatty acid (VFA) (intermediate-product of anaerobic digestion) was still limited. VFA production is preferred over biogas production because VFA can be used to produce more valuable product such as polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) (a type of biodegradable plastic). The enhancement of VFA production was achieved through the elimination of methanogenesis process. In this study, a sequencing batch reactor was used to enrich the biomass in partial anaerobic treatment of POME to enhance the VFA production. The SBR has a working volume of 8 L and hydraulic retention time of 5 days. The influent concentration of POME contains about 33400 mgCOD/L. The anaerobic reactor managed to increase the VFA accumulation to about 10500 mg/L total VFA (about 43.8 % of VFA accumulation in the feed). The microbial population analysis had revealed that the growth of methanogen was suppressed and no methane gas was release during the treatment process. Further, it was discovered that the increase of ammoniacal nitrogen has increased the total VFA production. About 105.7 % VFA accumulation was achieved at COD:N ratio of about 40:5. However, inhibition on the VFA production occurred at ammoniacal nitrogen content of more than 4000 mg/L shock loading. Furthermore, the effluent from the VFA enhancement reactor was used as the feed to produce PHA. The aerobic reactor accumulating PHA using VFA enriched POME (AE1) has achieved output PHA concentration of about 3773 mgPHA/L (specific production of about 0.32 mgPHA/mgVSS). The results shows that the recovery of the VFA has high potential to produce biodegradable plastic (PHA). Additionally, the microbial growth kinetics was evaluated for the microorganism in VFA enhancement reactor and PHA production reactor. The result of the growth kinetics studies was used to simulate the VFA accumulation and the PHA production by using MATLAB software.
Contributor(s):
Jing Xiang Lim - Author
Primary Item Type:
Thesis
Identifiers:
Accession Number : 875008838
Language:
English
Subject Keywords:
ammoniacal; accumulating; polyhydroxyalkanoate
Sponsor - Description:
Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Kimia -
First presented to the public:
6/1/2019
Original Publication Date:
8/5/2020
Previously Published By:
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Place Of Publication:
School of Chemical Engineering
Citation:
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Number of Pages - 181
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Date Deposited
2020-08-05 11:23:55.468
Submitter:
Mohamed Yunus Yusof

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