Evaluation of pressed shredded empty fruit bunch (EFB)-palm oil mill effluent (POME) anaerobic sludge based compost using fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 41, 2011, Pages 8082-8089

  Baharuddin, Azhari Samsu ^a   Rahman, Nor' Aini Abdul ^a   Shah, Umi Kalsom Md ^a   Hassan, Mohd Ali ^a   Wakisaka, Minato ^b   Shirai, Yoshihito ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compost; Empty fruit bunch; Palm oil mill effluent

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FAT; LIPID; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PALM OIL;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ARTICLE; CARBON NITROGEN RATIO; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHEMICAL WASTE; COMPOST; COMPOSTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPTY FRUIT BUNCH; EVALUATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PALM OIL MILL EFFLUENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SLUDGE;

EID: 79961192703     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/ajb10.548     Document Type: Article

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