Hesam Kamyab

University of Technology Malaysia

Dr. Hesam Kamyab is currently a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at Malaysia–Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He was appointed as the junior board member in the Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier (IF: 9.297) following his active paper review role. Also, he was appointed as managing guest editor in Energy Journal, Elsevier (IF: 7.147), guest editor in Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Springer (IF: 4.223), and guest editor in Sustainability Journal, MDPI (IF: 3.251). He has a chair in IWA Emerging Water Leader (EWL). He has published more than 110 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. In recent years, he has reviewed more than 1,000 papers.

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Palm oil biomass is constantly produced in large quantities throughout the world as a waste product of the vast palm oil plantations. Biomass from the palm oil industry has been converted into value-added products to a limited extent via thermochemical, chemical, physical, and biochemical conversion routes. However, a significant amount of biomass, such as OPF and OPT, is still left in plantations. A pragmatic approach to converting them to value-added products will not only result in a cleaner environment but also generate significant revenue for the government. It is also suggested that more attention be paid to bioproducts in order to present them in an appealing form to end-users, thereby encouraging good patronage.

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Palm Oil Mill Effluent as an Environmental Pollutant

By Hesam Kamyab, Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan, Mohd Fadhil Md Din, Shahabaldin Rezania, Tayebeh Khademi and Ashok Kumar

In recent decades, Malaysia has been known as one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of palm oil products. Every year, the number of palm oil mills increases rapidly, thus increasing the capacity of fresh fruit bunch waste or effluent discharge. Based on the data from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board in 2012, Malaysia produced 99.85 million tons of fresh fruit bunch (FFB) per year. However, about 5–5.7 tons of water was required in order to sterilize the palm fruit bunches and clarify the extracted oil to produce 1 ton of crude palm oil resulting in 50% of the water turning into palm oil mill effluent (POME). POME is one of the major environmental pollutants in Malaysia. The characteristics of POME and its behavior, if discharged directly, in water are described in this chapter. The suspended solid and nutrient content in POME could be able to support the growth of algae. This chapter aims to demonstrate that POME could be used as a main source for algae production, and this effluent is one of the main environmental problems in the tropical region especially in Malaysia.

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Elaeis guineensis

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