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6. Production of Biogas from Palm Oil Mill Effluent

Authors : Ravindra Pogaku, Kai Yieng Yong, V. Prasarnth Raaj Veera Rao

Published in: Advances in Bioprocess Technology

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Malaysia with an average crude palm oil production of more than 13 million tons per year is estimated produce total of palm oil mill effluent (POME) of 53 million tons/year. Batch anaerobic digestion of 8 l palm oil mill effluent was studied in a 25 l bioreactor at 30 °C (thermophilic condition) and pH controlled at 7. POME activated sludge and cow manure at ratio of 1:2.5 POME was used. The biogas produced is 7.825 l at hydraulic retention time of 44 days. The peak biogas production occurs at day 24 until day 34 and the production starts to decrease after day 35 due to the availability of nutrient that has decreased tremendously. Modeling studies showed that the linear plots of biogas production rates with the R2 of rising and failing limb ranged from 0.926 to 0.954 while the exponential plot shows the R2 range from 0.775 to 0.940.

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Metadata
Title
Production of Biogas from Palm Oil Mill Effluent
Authors
Ravindra Pogaku
Kai Yieng Yong
V. Prasarnth Raaj Veera Rao
Copyright Year
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17915-5_6