Analysis of cake compressibility of high fouling feedwater from a hybrid PAC-MF process

This study investigates the utility of a hybrid adsorption-membrane process for cake compressibility evaluation of biotreated palm oil mill effluent (BPOME). A low-cost empty fruit bunch (EFB) based powdered activated carbon (PAC) was employed for the upstream adsorption process with operation condi...

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Main Authors:	Amosa, Mutiu Kolade, Jami, Mohammed Saedi
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Language:	English English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	TP155 Chemical engineering
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spelling	iium-469762016-01-14T05:32:42Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/46976/ Analysis of cake compressibility of high fouling feedwater from a hybrid PAC-MF process Amosa, Mutiu Kolade Jami, Mohammed Saedi TP155 Chemical engineering This study investigates the utility of a hybrid adsorption-membrane process for cake compressibility evaluation of biotreated palm oil mill effluent (BPOME). A low-cost empty fruit bunch (EFB) based powdered activated carbon (PAC) was employed for the upstream adsorption process with operation conditions of 60 g/L PAC dose, 68 min mixing time, and 200 rpm mixing speed to reduce the feed-water strength and alleviate probable fouling of the membranes. Two polyethersulfone microfiltration (MF) membranes of 0.1 and 0.2 µm pore sizes were investigated under constant transmembrane pressures (TMP) of 40, 80, and 120 kPa. The compressibility factors (z), which was obtained from the slopes of power plots (function of specific cake resistance (α) and pressure gradient) were evaluated. The z values of 0.32 and 0.52, respectively obtained, for the 0.1 and 0.2 µm MF membranes provided compressible and stable z values as observed from their power plots. Besides, these membranes were found suitable for the measurement of z since the results are in consonance with the established principle of cake compressibility. Moreover, the upstream adsorption mitigated the clogging of the membranes which ultimately led to moderate resistances and cake compressibility. These are indications that with the secondary cake filtration, a sustainable flux can be achieved during BPOME filtration. The membranes exhibited close to 100% restoration after cleaning. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/46976/2/Full_Paper.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/46976/9/46976.pdf Amosa, Mutiu Kolade and Jami, Mohammed Saedi (2015) Analysis of cake compressibility of high fouling feedwater from a hybrid PAC-MF process. In: International Conference on Fluids and Chemical Engineering (FluidsChE 2015), 25th-27th Nov. 2015, Langkawi, Malaysia. (Unpublished) http://fluidsche.ump.edu.my/
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spellingShingle	TP155 Chemical engineering Amosa, Mutiu Kolade Jami, Mohammed Saedi Analysis of cake compressibility of high fouling feedwater from a hybrid PAC-MF process
description	This study investigates the utility of a hybrid adsorption-membrane process for cake compressibility evaluation of biotreated palm oil mill effluent (BPOME). A low-cost empty fruit bunch (EFB) based powdered activated carbon (PAC) was employed for the upstream adsorption process with operation conditions of 60 g/L PAC dose, 68 min mixing time, and 200 rpm mixing speed to reduce the feed-water strength and alleviate probable fouling of the membranes. Two polyethersulfone microfiltration (MF) membranes of 0.1 and 0.2 µm pore sizes were investigated under constant transmembrane pressures (TMP) of 40, 80, and 120 kPa. The compressibility factors (z), which was obtained from the slopes of power plots (function of specific cake resistance (α) and pressure gradient) were evaluated. The z values of 0.32 and 0.52, respectively obtained, for the 0.1 and 0.2 µm MF membranes provided compressible and stable z values as observed from their power plots. Besides, these membranes were found suitable for the measurement of z since the results are in consonance with the established principle of cake compressibility. Moreover, the upstream adsorption mitigated the clogging of the membranes which ultimately led to moderate resistances and cake compressibility. These are indications that with the secondary cake filtration, a sustainable flux can be achieved during BPOME filtration. The membranes exhibited close to 100% restoration after cleaning.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Amosa, Mutiu Kolade Jami, Mohammed Saedi
author_facet	Amosa, Mutiu Kolade Jami, Mohammed Saedi
author_sort	Amosa, Mutiu Kolade
title	Analysis of cake compressibility of high fouling feedwater from a hybrid PAC-MF process
title_short	Analysis of cake compressibility of high fouling feedwater from a hybrid PAC-MF process
title_full	Analysis of cake compressibility of high fouling feedwater from a hybrid PAC-MF process
title_fullStr	Analysis of cake compressibility of high fouling feedwater from a hybrid PAC-MF process
title_full_unstemmed	Analysis of cake compressibility of high fouling feedwater from a hybrid PAC-MF process
title_sort	analysis of cake compressibility of high fouling feedwater from a hybrid pac-mf process
publishDate	2015
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Analysis of cake compressibility of high fouling feedwater from a hybrid PAC-MF process

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