Turning waste to wealth-biodegradable plastics polyhydroxyalkanoates from palm oil mill effluent – a Malaysian perspective
Palm oil industries have been contributing significantly towards the country’s economy and increase standard of living among Malaysians. However, it has also been identified as the major contributor for discharging the largest pollution load throughout the country. Owing to high biochemical oxygen d...
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| author | Mumtaz, Tabassum Yahaya, Noor Amalina Abd. Aziz, Suraini Abdul Rahman, Nor'aini Phang, Lai Yee Shirai, Yoshihito Hassan, Mohd Ali |
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| description | Palm oil industries have been contributing significantly towards the country’s economy and increase standard of living among Malaysians. However, it has also been identified as the major contributor for discharging the largest pollution load throughout the country. Owing to high biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD), the palm oil mill effluent (POME) cannot be discharged directly into the environment. Thus, palm oil industries are facing tremendous challenges in order to comply with environmental regulations. While anaerobic digestion has been employed by most mills as primary treatment, POME can also be a potential source of degradable organic material which can be converted into value-added products and fine chemicals. Organic acids generated during acid-phase anaerobic digestion of POME could be a potential carbon source for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA)- a biodegradable thermoplastic material of microbial origin. This paper aims at understanding how organic acids from POME may serve as a renewable feedstock for the biosynthesis of PHA. |
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| spelling | upm-402812016-09-02T09:15:26Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40281/ Turning waste to wealth-biodegradable plastics polyhydroxyalkanoates from palm oil mill effluent – a Malaysian perspective Mumtaz, Tabassum Yahaya, Noor Amalina Abd. Aziz, Suraini Abdul Rahman, Nor'aini Phang, Lai Yee Shirai, Yoshihito Hassan, Mohd Ali Palm oil industries have been contributing significantly towards the country’s economy and increase standard of living among Malaysians. However, it has also been identified as the major contributor for discharging the largest pollution load throughout the country. Owing to high biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD), the palm oil mill effluent (POME) cannot be discharged directly into the environment. Thus, palm oil industries are facing tremendous challenges in order to comply with environmental regulations. While anaerobic digestion has been employed by most mills as primary treatment, POME can also be a potential source of degradable organic material which can be converted into value-added products and fine chemicals. Organic acids generated during acid-phase anaerobic digestion of POME could be a potential carbon source for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA)- a biodegradable thermoplastic material of microbial origin. This paper aims at understanding how organic acids from POME may serve as a renewable feedstock for the biosynthesis of PHA. Elsevier 2010-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40281/1/Turning%20waste%20to%20wealth-biodegradable%20plastics%20polyhydroxyalkanoates%20from%20palm%20oil%20mill%20effluent%20%E2%80%93%20a%20Malaysian%20perspective.pdf Mumtaz, Tabassum and Yahaya, Noor Amalina and Abd. Aziz, Suraini and Abdul Rahman, Nor'aini and Phang, Lai Yee and Shirai, Yoshihito and Hassan, Mohd Ali (2010) Turning waste to wealth-biodegradable plastics polyhydroxyalkanoates from palm oil mill effluent – a Malaysian perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production, 18 (14). pp. 1393-1402. ISSN 0959-6526; ESSN: 1879-1786 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652610002039 10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.05.016 |
| spellingShingle | Mumtaz, Tabassum Yahaya, Noor Amalina Abd. Aziz, Suraini Abdul Rahman, Nor'aini Phang, Lai Yee Shirai, Yoshihito Hassan, Mohd Ali Turning waste to wealth-biodegradable plastics polyhydroxyalkanoates from palm oil mill effluent – a Malaysian perspective |
| title | Turning waste to wealth-biodegradable plastics polyhydroxyalkanoates from palm oil mill effluent – a Malaysian perspective |
| title_full | Turning waste to wealth-biodegradable plastics polyhydroxyalkanoates from palm oil mill effluent – a Malaysian perspective |
| title_fullStr | Turning waste to wealth-biodegradable plastics polyhydroxyalkanoates from palm oil mill effluent – a Malaysian perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Turning waste to wealth-biodegradable plastics polyhydroxyalkanoates from palm oil mill effluent – a Malaysian perspective |
| title_short | Turning waste to wealth-biodegradable plastics polyhydroxyalkanoates from palm oil mill effluent – a Malaysian perspective |
| title_sort | turning waste to wealth-biodegradable plastics polyhydroxyalkanoates from palm oil mill effluent – a malaysian perspective |
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