Title of article :
Microbubbles Size Distribution at Different Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) Temperatures for Oil Recovery Study
Author/Authors :
mohamad, nurul hazwani universiti teknologi mara - faculty of plantation and agrotechnology - tropical agro biomass research group, Shah Alam, Malaysia , sulaiman, alawi universiti teknologi mara - faculty of plantation and agrotechnology - tropical agro biomass research group, Shah Alam, Malaysia , krishnan, jagannathan ssn institution - department of chemical engineering, Chennai, India , mokhtar, mohd noriznan universiti putra malaysia - faculty of engineering, Selangor, malaysia , baharuddin, azhari samsu universiti putra malaysia - faculty of engineering, Selangor, Malaysia
Abstract :
Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) is the largest contributor of biomass fromthe palm oil milling industry. Conventional method of POME treatmentusing ponding system should be improved because of huge land resourcerequirement. In this study, microbubbles technology was applied tounderstand the recovery rate of residual oil from POME at differentoperating temperatures. Temperature for POME was set at 27 oC, 30 oC and50 oC to determine the microbubble size distributions and characteristics atdifferent POME temperature. At each temperature, the size of microbubbleswas measured based on six size range; 10 μm, (11-20) μm, (21-30) μm,(31-40) μm, (41-50) μm and 50 μm. The results showed that at differenttemperatures, the microbubbles size distribution varies and the smallest group of microbubbles ( 10μm) was generated at 50oC. According to Stoke-Einstein equation, at higher temperature, smaller size of microbubbles isgenerated because of the gas diffusion factor into liquid.
Keywords :
palm oil mill effluent (POME) , size distribution , temperature , Stokes , Einstein equation
Journal title :
Scientific Research Journal
Journal title :
Scientific Research Journal
