Dewatering of Anaerobic Digested Sludge with Oil Palm Biomass as Novel Physical Conditioner
dc.contributor.author | Chan, Z.Y. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lau, Shiew Wei | |
dc.contributor.author | Chua, Han | |
dc.contributor.editor | Awang Bono | |
dc.contributor.editor | Coswald Stephen Sipaut | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T15:36:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T15:36:23Z | |
dc.date.created | 2013-03-18T20:00:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Chan, Z.Y. and Lau, S.W. and Chua, H.B. 2012. Dewatering of Anaerobic Digested Sludge with Oil Palm Biomass as Novel Physical Conditioner, in Bono, A. and Sipaut, C.S. (ed), Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, Nov 21-23 2012, pp. 205-211. Sabah, Malaysia: Universiti Malaysia Sabah. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47914 | |
dc.description.abstract |
This study investigated the use of oil palm biomass, namely empty fruit bunch (EFB), palm kernel shell (PKS), and the biomass residue, palm ash (PA), as physical conditioner, to improve the dewaterability of anaerobic digested sludge. The dewatering performance of the conditioned sludge in this work was evaluated with four common measurements i.e. the capillary suction time (CST), specific resistance to filtration (SRF), net sludge solids yield (YN), and moisture content of the sludge cake. Amongst all the biomass samples, the ground EFB passing through a 0.6-mm mesh sieve indicated the highest reduction in SRF and the highest gain in YN at solids mass ratio of conditioner to sludge of 1.6. When the conditioned sludge was subjected to filtration dewatering, the presence of oil palm biomass in sludge may act as a skeleton builder to provide a porous, permeable and rigid lattice sludge cake structure which allows the passage of water and consequently enhances water removal from sludge. | |
dc.publisher | School of Engineering & Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sabah | |
dc.subject | oil palm biomass | |
dc.subject | skeleton builder | |
dc.subject | Sludge dewatering | |
dc.subject | physical conditioner | |
dc.title | Dewatering of Anaerobic Digested Sludge with Oil Palm Biomass as Novel Physical Conditioner | |
dc.type | Conference Paper | |
dcterms.source.startPage | 205 | |
dcterms.source.endPage | 211 | |
dcterms.source.title | The 26th Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering | |
dcterms.source.series | The 26th Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering | |
dcterms.source.isbn | 978-983-2641-95-7 | |
dcterms.source.conference | Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering | |
dcterms.source.conference-start-date | Nov 21 2012 | |
dcterms.source.conferencelocation | Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia | |
dcterms.source.place | Sabah, Malaysia | |
curtin.department | Sarawak Malaysia | |
curtin.accessStatus | Fulltext not available |