TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Felix Voon Sze Lee
TI  - Nutrient removal in wastewater treatment plants through energy efficient process via microalgae treatment
SN  - THE0008325(Local)
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Kuantan, Pahang
PB  - UMP
KW  - Faculty of Civil Engineering and Earth Resources
KW  - Dissertations
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Disertations
KW  - Theses
N1  - Faculty of Civil Engineering and Earth Resources; Project Paper (Bachelors of Civil Engineering) -- Universiti Malaysia Pahang – 2018; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - Wastewater  pollution  has  always  been  a  major  problem  throughout  the  world. Environmental issues due to the  palm oil mill effluent (POME)  has come to a serious stage and endanger human’s health, and this cause human to realize the importance of the wastewater treatment.  The current method in treating wastewater is not environmental sustainable.  Conventional activated sludge (CAS) system consumes a lot of energy and it will cause high emission of carbon dioxide during the treatment process and therefore, new  energy  efficient  process  starts  to  emerge.  Microalgae  treatment  is  one  of  the wastewater treatment method that helped in lowering down the energy consumption and low  emission  of  carbon  dioxide.  Apart  from  that,  microalgae  use  sunlight  and  the atmospheric carbon dioxide to carry out photosynthesis and hence it is eco-friendly and environmental sustainable. This study  was  aimed to investigate  the feasibility of new municipal wastewater treatment concepts that help to improve energy saving  by using laboratory  scale  model  and  determine  the  effectiveness  of  microalgae  (C.  Incerta)  in order to achieve a higher standard quality of palm oil mill effluent discharge. Palm oil mill  effluent  (POME)  was  being  used  as  wastewater  sample  and  C.  Incerta  as  the microalgae. Few laboratory experiments were conducted to know the  characteristic of palm oil mill effluent (POME). A total  of 14 days was used to conduct the experiment. The microalgae were obtained from Indah Water Konsortium (IWK), Kuantan and started the cultivation process.  There will be eight (8) parameters for the water quality testing which are biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), nitrate (NO3-), phosphate (PO4-P), ammoniacal nitrogen (NH3-N), oil & grease, total suspended solid (TSS), pH of POME and growth rate of C. Incerta.  All the experiments were carried out by following the guideline in  Standard Examination of Water and Wastewater by American Public Health Association (2005). C. Incerta is suitable microalgae and it has successfully remove about 50 % of COD and 80 % of ammoniacal nitrogen. The results proved that microalgae treatment is an effective method to remove nutrient in POME by C. Incerta
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