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This study focused on the performance of dragon fruit foliage as a natural, plant-based coagulant to replace chemical coagulants for the treatment of three-phase decanter palm oil mill effluent (POME). Palm oil mill effluent is a high strength wastewater with high chemical oxygen demand (COD), suspended solids (SS), and turbidity as compared to other sources of POME in mills. The first objective of this study was to determine the optimum operating conditions of the coagulation-flocculation process using the plant-based coagulant in terms of pH and dosage. The second objective was to measure the percentage removal of COD, SS, and turbidity using the coagulant to treat the POME. The pH values and dosages used in the coagulation-flocculation process were in the range of two to ten and 300 mg/L to 800 mg/L, respectively. This study revealed that the optimum percentage removals of COD, SS, and turbidity were 48.7%, 98.8%, and 99.2%, respectively, at the best operating conditions of pH 2 and a coagulant dosage of 300 mg/L. In conclusion, the dragon fruit foliage, plant-based coagulant was found to have potential and could be used in the pretreatment stages to substitute chemical coagulants for the treatment of POME.

Performance Study of Dragon Fruit Foliage as a Plant-based Coagulant for Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent from Three-phase Decanters