Biomass production and nutrients removal by a newly-isolated microalgal strain Chlamydomonas sp in palm oil mill effluent (POME)

Integrated Palm Oil Mill Effluent Treatment and CO2 Sequestration by Microalgae

“…UKM 2, C. sorokiniana UKM 3 and C. vulgaris were used for CO 2 sequestration study. Ten percent (v/v) of these strains were cultured in the Bold Basal's media (BBM) as stated by Ding et al (2016). The microalgae were kept at ambient temperature at 30ºC under continuous illumination (54 μmol m -2 s -1 ) and sparged with a constant air flow rate at 2000 mLmin -1 for 21 days, followed by measurement of dry weight and optical density (OD).…”

“…Microalgae such as Chlamydomonas sp. UKM 6 (Ding et al 2016), Chlorella sorokiniana (Khalid et al 2018), Botryococcus brauni (Nur et al 2018) and mix culture of microalgae (Babua et al 2017) have been cultivated in POME. Furthermore, algae biomass produced were useful in food industry, medical, biofertilizer, animal feed, biodiesel and biogas production.…”

Phytoremediation of suspended solids and turbidity of palm oil mill effluent (POME) by Ipomea aquatica

“…Dilution has been applied as required preparing method in most of the POME phytoremediation (Table 1), nevertheless, [16] could reached to approximately 50% removal with two macrophytes combined with one microalgae in undiluted POME and results of [19] indicate that COD removal efficiency in undiluted POME were more significant than the diluted POME. Preliminary assessment showed that Water hyacinth, Water lettuce and Umbrella plant couldn't resist and live in undiluted POME, thus naturally grown Water spinach around POME treatment ponds selected for this study.…”

Growth Evaluation of Microalgae Isolated From Palm Oil Mill Effluent in Synthetic Media

“…Apart from using bacteria, microalgae are one of the options to be used in biological treatment. The use of microalgae for the removal of pollutants and CO 2 in the wastewater is known as phycoremediation [23][24][25].…”

“…The ability of microalgae to adapt and assimilate nutrient, as well as grow successfully in POME have made them suitable to be used in wastewater treatment. According to Ding et al [25], POME-isolated microalgae, namely Chlamydomonas sp. UKM6 was able to reduce 29.1% of COD, 73% of total nitrogen content, and 63.5% of total phosphorus content in wastewater.…”