Chapter 27
Sustainable Wastewater Management in Palm Oil Mills
Publication: Green Technologies for Sustainable Water Management
Abstract
This chapter discusses sustainable palm oil mill effluent (POME) management systems for different conditions of palm oil mills in Indonesia. The development of palm oil industries worldwide currently focuses on increasing the productivity of the land and efficiency of crude palm oil (CPO) processing in the mill. Improving the efficiency of power generation and its use is one important way to improve the sustainability of the palm oil industry. Wastewater treatment processes in palm oil industries usually apply conventional biological treatment. In the context of the palm oil industry, sustainability is about the long-term security of the supply chain if the palm oil business is to continue with a holistic balance between social, environmental, and economic needs of the country and people. Generating electricity from POME through biogas or methane capture has attracted considerable attention across the palm oil industry.
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