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Comparison of POME treatment between anaerobic MBRs and non-anaerobic MBRs Table 1 unfavourable conditions or environmental stresses as a direct response of bacteria to protect themselves [7-11]. Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of anaerobic bioreactors. Note: All the values are in the unit of mg/L except pH. Characterization of POME [23] Table 2 Fig. 2. Schematic diagram of cross-flow filtration process. Composition of TM Agricultural Fig. 3. (a) Average COD removal efficiencies of different biore- actors, (b) Box—plot graph for COD removal efficiencies of dif- ferent bioreactors and (c) 3 months COD removal efficiencies of different bioreactors in the progressive manner. R.H. Wong et al. / Desalination and Water Treatment 281 (2023) 58-69 PES membrane characteristics Table 5 R.H. Wong et al. / Desalination and Water Treatment 281 (2023) 58-69 Fig. 5. Relationship between membrane fouling rate and different EPS concentrations. Fig. 4. MLSS concentration throughout 3 months period. Fig. 6. Relationship between different polysaccharides concentrations removal rate and membrane fouling rate. Removal efficiencies of polysaccharides and COD before and after membrane filtration of An-MBRs Table 6 Fig. 7. Sludge floc size distributions based on (a) volume and (b) number counts of different An-MBRs that higher MLSS concentration was good for membrane fouling control [35]. However, some studies concluded that higher MLSS concentration would result in lower membrane filterability. This may be because high MLSS concentration would retain particle flocs in the EPS matrix which affects the membrane filtration process [34-43]. Rosenberger et al. [44] found that by increasing MLSS concentration more than 6 g/L helped to reduce membrane fouling but when The interactions of MLSS towards membrane fouling remained contradicted to date. Some researchers noticed ig. 8. MLSS and MLVSS concentrations ratio of different An-MBRs Fig. 9. Effect of different MLSS concentrations on membrane fouling control. Among the four An-MBRs (bioreactors A, B, C, and D), it was found that the bioreactor C added with microbe acti- vator with dilution factor of 1/500 showed the best results in terms of COD removal efficiency, EPS concentration removal efficiency (mainly in terms of polysaccharides removal effi- ciency) and membrane fouling control. POME was used in this research work as the fed in solution which contains COD concentration that is up to 6,000 + 300 mg/L which is relatively higher compared to domestic wastewater (600- 900 mg/L). This can explain why some MBRs performed bet- ter in terms of COD removal rate. In this research work, the removal rate of the COD of POME after being treated by the bioreactor C and the membrane filtration is 70.60% + 2.20% and 79.47% + 3.74%, respectively. The good result of the We would like to extend our gratitude to Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman for UTAR RESEARCH FUND with project No. IPSR/RMC/UTARRF/2015-C2/N02 and Best
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