Palm Oil
The production of palm oil has increased significantly over the years. The treatment of wastewater from palm oil mills is one of the biggest challenges. Generally, Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) contains high concentrations of organic matter, oil, and suspended solids. Proper treatment is essential to minimize environmental impact and comply with local regulatory and international certification standards. In addition, solution optimization can reduce the cost of POME treatment through (enhanced) energy, water and other resource recovery.
For years, palm oil companies have mainly relied on traditional ponding and open digesting systems. These systems require vast amounts of space, waste potential resources, and more importantly do not comply with increasingly strict standards for odor, greenhouse gas and effluent (COD, BOD, nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus).
Choose our innovative and future-proof solution!
By investing in an advanced POME treatment system that utilizes high-rate anaerobic bioreactors for energy recovery, your company can comply with (environmental) regulations and certifications, reduce its ecological footprint, while achieving economic benefits at the same time. Economic benefits can be achieved through recovery of energy, lower chemical usage, recovery of resources (nitrogen and phosphorus), and water reuse.
In addition, under the clean development mechanism and through methane capturing systems, our high-rate anaerobic bioreactor systems for POME treatment bring in extra revenue through generation of certified emission reduction credits.
What can Colubris do for you?
- Designing a customized POME treatment system.
- Providing innovative anaerobic bioreactors or other efficient technologies that effectively treat POME meeting environmental standards.
- Process optimization and monitoring - Implementing advanced measurement and control systems to monitor and optimize wastewater treatment performance, ensuring cost efficiency.
- Regulatory compliance and consulting - Assisting in meeting national and international environmental regulations, including BOD and COD standards.
- Bringing over 40 years of experience in implementing biological water treatment systems in your company.
Benefits of effective POME treatment
- Compliance with environmental regulations
- Energy consumption reduction
- Water consumption and effluent disposal reduction
- Potential to earn extra revenue through certified emission reduction credits
- Sustainable operations
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