Table 1.

Physicochemical properties of the raw palm oil mill effluents (POME) used in this work.

Physicochemical Property	Raw POME
Temperature (°C)	40 ± 1
pH	8 ± 0.16
Conductivity (μs/cm)	130 ± 0.46
Nitrogen (mg/L)	9 ± 0.37
Phosphate (PO4−3 mg/L)	20.3 ± 0.25
Total suspended solids (mg/L)	188 ± 1
Dissolved oxygen demand (mg/L)	3.1 ± 0.15
Chemical oxygen demand (mg/L)	46,500 ± 3.55
Biochemical oxygen demand (mg/L)	21,000 ± 3.21