Treatment of palm oil refinery wastewater by sequencing batch reactor process

Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) process has been evaluated as a cost-effective alternative treatment system for palm oil refinery effluent in Malaysia. This innovative process has successfully gone through laboratory and pilot scale studies. The technology has also successfully been transferred to full commercial scale application. The present study has demonstrated that SBR process is capable of producing highly purified final discharge with very low chemical oxygen demand (COD) (