2.3. Characterisation of treated palm oil mill effluent (POME)
The treated POME was collected from USM Environmental lab.
This treated POME was obtained from raw POME which had
undergone aerobic treatment in Sequencing Batch Reactors (SBR). Filtration via
filter paper assisted by a vacuum pump were applied
to remove most of the suspended solids in treated POME so that it
was suitable to be used as culture medium. The characteristics of
autoclaved,
filtered treated POME were then determined. Table 1
shows the analysis and method used for each of the tested
parameters.