Bacterial community shift as potential bioindicator for monitoring the performance of palm oil mill effluent treatment system

The growing demand for palm oil has caused a substantial increase in the generation of palm oil mill effluent (POME). POME has been known to give the adverse environmental impacts including land and aquatic ecosystem contamination and the biodiversity loss if it is not properly treated. In Malaysia,...

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Main Authors: Mohd Nor, Diana, Ramli, Norhayati, Hassan, Mohd Ali, Maeda, Toshinari, Shirai, Yoshihito, Sakai, Kenji, Yukihiro, Tashiro
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/64360/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/64360/1/BIO%20Poster%20111117%2020.pdf
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author Mohd Nor, Diana
Ramli, Norhayati
Hassan, Mohd Ali
Maeda, Toshinari
Shirai, Yoshihito
Sakai, Kenji
Yukihiro, Tashiro
author_facet Mohd Nor, Diana
Ramli, Norhayati
Hassan, Mohd Ali
Maeda, Toshinari
Shirai, Yoshihito
Sakai, Kenji
Yukihiro, Tashiro
author_sort Mohd Nor, Diana
building UPM Institutional Repository
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description The growing demand for palm oil has caused a substantial increase in the generation of palm oil mill effluent (POME). POME has been known to give the adverse environmental impacts including land and aquatic ecosystem contamination and the biodiversity loss if it is not properly treated. In Malaysia, the biological ponding system is commonly being used to treat POME because of the low cost and less maintenance is required. However, the current wastewater treatment system for POME regularly fails to treat the effluent efficiently. To meet the standard discharge limit proposed by the Malaysian Department of the Environment, the POME must be treated effectively before being released into the receiving water bodies, hence monitoring a correct operation of POME treatment system is crucial. However, to date, only few studies have been conducted on the microbial aspects of POME and little is known about microbial diversity involved in the POME treatment system, either in terms of their community structure and function or their response to the environment. Therefore, the study on the microbial community composition of POME treatment system has been carried out which later can be used as potential bioindicator to monitor the performance of the treatment system. Sampling from POME treatment system was done by collecting samples from raw POME, anaerobic tanks, as well as from facultative and algae ponds. The shift of microbial community composition at each stage of POME treatment system has been shown by using PCR-Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) and Illumina Miseq. As a conclusion, a sensitive and accurate monitoring approach of POME treatment system using bacterial community shift is proposed to ensure a correct operation for POME treatment, hence can be used to complement the current physicochemical assessment method.
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spelling upm-643602018-07-04T02:38:38Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/64360/ Bacterial community shift as potential bioindicator for monitoring the performance of palm oil mill effluent treatment system Mohd Nor, Diana Ramli, Norhayati Hassan, Mohd Ali Maeda, Toshinari Shirai, Yoshihito Sakai, Kenji Yukihiro, Tashiro The growing demand for palm oil has caused a substantial increase in the generation of palm oil mill effluent (POME). POME has been known to give the adverse environmental impacts including land and aquatic ecosystem contamination and the biodiversity loss if it is not properly treated. In Malaysia, the biological ponding system is commonly being used to treat POME because of the low cost and less maintenance is required. However, the current wastewater treatment system for POME regularly fails to treat the effluent efficiently. To meet the standard discharge limit proposed by the Malaysian Department of the Environment, the POME must be treated effectively before being released into the receiving water bodies, hence monitoring a correct operation of POME treatment system is crucial. However, to date, only few studies have been conducted on the microbial aspects of POME and little is known about microbial diversity involved in the POME treatment system, either in terms of their community structure and function or their response to the environment. Therefore, the study on the microbial community composition of POME treatment system has been carried out which later can be used as potential bioindicator to monitor the performance of the treatment system. Sampling from POME treatment system was done by collecting samples from raw POME, anaerobic tanks, as well as from facultative and algae ponds. The shift of microbial community composition at each stage of POME treatment system has been shown by using PCR-Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) and Illumina Miseq. As a conclusion, a sensitive and accurate monitoring approach of POME treatment system using bacterial community shift is proposed to ensure a correct operation for POME treatment, hence can be used to complement the current physicochemical assessment method. 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/64360/1/BIO%20Poster%20111117%2020.pdf Mohd Nor, Diana and Ramli, Norhayati and Hassan, Mohd Ali and Maeda, Toshinari and Shirai, Yoshihito and Sakai, Kenji and Yukihiro, Tashiro (2017) Bacterial community shift as potential bioindicator for monitoring the performance of palm oil mill effluent treatment system. In: 5th International Symposium on Applied Engineering and Sciences (SAES2017), 14-15 Nov. 2017, Universiti Putra Malaysia. (p. 20).
spellingShingle Mohd Nor, Diana
Ramli, Norhayati
Hassan, Mohd Ali
Maeda, Toshinari
Shirai, Yoshihito
Sakai, Kenji
Yukihiro, Tashiro
Bacterial community shift as potential bioindicator for monitoring the performance of palm oil mill effluent treatment system
title Bacterial community shift as potential bioindicator for monitoring the performance of palm oil mill effluent treatment system
title_full Bacterial community shift as potential bioindicator for monitoring the performance of palm oil mill effluent treatment system
title_fullStr Bacterial community shift as potential bioindicator for monitoring the performance of palm oil mill effluent treatment system
title_full_unstemmed Bacterial community shift as potential bioindicator for monitoring the performance of palm oil mill effluent treatment system
title_short Bacterial community shift as potential bioindicator for monitoring the performance of palm oil mill effluent treatment system
title_sort bacterial community shift as potential bioindicator for monitoring the performance of palm oil mill effluent treatment system
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/64360/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/64360/1/BIO%20Poster%20111117%2020.pdf