Palm oil mill effluent from the palm oil processing industry has been documented as a cause of severe damages to aquatic systems and a significant increase in greenhouse gases. This study was designed to use electrocoagulation for the pre-treatment of palm oil mill effluent to simultaneously reduce the pollutants and produce hydrogen gas. In this research, response surface methodology was appli...

Over the last decade, the use of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) has increased by a factor of three within the Swedish pulp industry. The effects of pulp mill wastewater in combination with EDTA on metal mobility and the consequences for ecologically relevant organisms have been studied. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid was added to pulp mill effluent water in the laboratory and compared ...

Pulp and paper effluents are considered as serious environmental hazards and their treatment, because of multiplicity of impurities and complexity of their chemical structures, is one of the most difficult and inconvenient industrial processes. As the most pulp and paper mill work on kraft process, there are few studies in literature on the treatment of neural sulfite semi chemical (NSSC) p...

In a previous study we showed that broods from the viviparous eelpout Zoarces viviparus were significantly male biased in 1998 in the vicinity of a large kraft pulp mill on the Swedish Baltic coast. One suggested hypothesis was that masculinizing compounds in the effluent were affecting gonadal differentiation of the embryos, resulting in skewed sex ratios. In this article, we present further e...

This study investigates oxidative stress and bioindicators of reproductive function in wild white sucker (Catostomus commersoni) collected from environments receiving pulp and paper mill effluent discharges in northern Ontario. Samples were collected over an eight-year period adjacent to three pulp and paper mills using a variety of processing and bleaching techniques. Fish collected downstream...

Four pulp and paper mills discharge their effluents in the same section of the Biobio River in central southern Chile. Pulp mill effluents are a very complex mixture with characteristics that depend on the type of raw material, the process technology, and the effluent treatment. To investigate the effect of pulp mill effluent discharges, immature Oncorhynchus mykiss were exposed to river sedime...

The influence of seven rates of Sugar mill effluent (viz. 0, 5, 10 25, 50, 75 and 100 ml/kg soil) along with control (Bore-well water, BWW) on the physical and chemical properties of soils revealed that among various concentrations of the effluents, the irrigation with 100% effluent concentration decreased moisture content (20.44%),WHC (13.80%), BD (4.14%) and increased pH (9.56%), EC (64.28%),...

Water requirement to meet agriculture, domestic, industrial and other demands indicate the need for regeneration of waste water. Industrial waste water is being used in dry areas. Waste water of pulp and paper industry (brown with unpleasant smell) is usually alkaline in nature, has high suspended solids, total solids, COD, BOD and toxic odorous substances. It was observed in the study areas th...

Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is an important source of inland water pollution when released into local rivers or lakes without treatment. In the process of palm oil milling, POME is generat‐ ed through sterilization of fresh oil palm fruit bunches, clarification of palm oil and effluent from hydro-cyclone operations [Borja et al.,1996a]. POME is a viscous brown liquid with fine suspended solid...

The effect of paper mill effluent on the physico-chemical properties of soils was studied under natural environment in pots experiment. The soil was treated to six rates of effluent viz. 5, 10 25, 50, 75 and 100 ml/Kg soil. The physico-chemical properties of the soil were determined before and at the end of the experiment, 12 weeks after irrigation with the effluent. Results revealed that among...