Methane Recovery and Utilisation Project at TSH Kunak Oil Palm Mill

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TSH Kunak Oil Palm Mill at Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia

Methane Recovery and Utilisation Project at TSH Kunak Oil Palm Mill

The project activity involves the installation of a closed continuous-flow stirred tank reactor (CSTR) anaerobic digester plant for the treatment of palm oil mill effluent at TSH Kunak Oil Palm Mill at Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia. The biogas generated will be captured in the enclosed anaerobic digester tanks. The captured biogas will be utilised for power generation where electricity generated will be supplied to an industrial plant located within the same integrated industrial complex. Excess biogas, if it occurs, will be flared. The anaerobic digester plant will replace the existing treatment system for the raw palm oil mill effluent (POME) from TSH Kunak Oil Palm Mill which is based on the common open lagoon treatment method widely adopted by the palm oil industry in Malaysia. The existing method involves the application of deep open lagoons (6.5 m depth) (Pond # 1, 2, 3 & 4) for anaerobic digestion of the POME, followed by facultative treatment in Pond # 5 & 6), and finally subject to aerobic conditioning in Pond # 7, before discharging to open watercourse.

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