Cahyono, Rochim B and Ismiyati, Sri and Ginting, Simparmin B and Mellyanawaty, Melly and Budhijanto, Wiratni (2018) Characterization of modified zeolite as microbial immobilization media on POME anaerobic digestion. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineerings, 1 (316). pp. 1-10. ISSN 17578981

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Abstract

As the world’s biggest palm oil producer, Indonesia generates also huge amount of Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) wastewater and causes serious problem in environment. In conventional method, POME was converted into biogas using lagoon system which required extensive land area. Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Reactor (AFBR) proposes more effective biogas producing with smaller land area. In the proposed system, a immobilization media would be main factor for enhancing productivity. This research studied on characterization of Lampung natural zeolite as immobilization media in the AFBR system for POME treatment. Various activation method such as physical and chemical were attempted to create more suitable material which has larger surface area, pore size distribution as well as excellent surface structures. The physical method was applied by heating up the material till 400oC while HCl was used on the chemical activation. Based on the result, the chemical activation increased the surface area significantly into 71 m2/g compared to physical as well as original zeolite. The strong acid material was quite effective to enforce the impurities within zeolite pore structure compared to heating up the material. According to distribution data, the Lampung zeolite owned the pore size with the range of 3 – 5 μm which was mesopore material. The pore size was appropriate for immobilization media as it was smaller than size of biogas microbial. The XRD patterns verified that chemical activation could maintain the zeolite structure as the original. Obviously, the SEM photograph showed apparent structure and pore size on the modified zeolite using chemical method. The testing of modified zeolite on the batch system was done to evaluate the characterization process. The modified zeolite using chemical process resulted fast reduction of COD and stabilized the volatile fatty acid as the intermediate product of anaerobic digestion, especially in the beginning of the process. Therefore, the chemical activation process was most suitable to produce the immobilization media from Lampung natural zeolite for POME waste treatment

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Divisions:	Fakultas Teknik (FT) > Prodi Teknik Kimia
Depositing User:	SIMPARMIN
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2018 07:34
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2018 07:34
URI:	http://repository.lppm.unila.ac.id/id/eprint/8576

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