TY - JOUR AU - Wan Basri, Wan Nurain Farahah AU - Wei Lim, Jun AU - Isa, Mohamed Hasnain AU - Baloo, Lavania AU - Uemura, Yoshimitsu AU - J.K. Bashir, Mohammed AU - Cheong Lee, Yen AU - Chuan Ching, Dennis Ling PY - 2020/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Sugarcane Bagasse-based Adsorbent as an Alternative to Enhance the Harvesting Process of Chlorella vulgaris Biomass JF - Journal of Advanced Research in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences JA - J. Adv. Res. Fluid Mech. Therm. Sc. VL - 46 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://www.akademiabaru.com/submit/index.php/arfmts/article/view/2207 SP - 106-113 AB - <p>This research brightens a new approach to enhance Chlorella vulgaris biomass harvesting process using low-cost sugarcane bagasse-derived adsorbents in the optimized culture medium. Sugarcane bagasse-derived adsorbents were activated using different chemical concentration. Acid modified sugarcane bagasse-derived adsorbents of 1.5 M resulted the highest adsorption capacity of 66%. Point of zero charge was carried out the explained the reasons. The samples viewed under SEM showed 1.5M acid modified sugarcane bagasse-derived adsorbents have highest microalgae adsorption. Different sizes (710µm, 1mm, 2mm and 4mm) of 1.5M acid modified sugarcane bagasse-derived adsorbents were tested and 4mm-sized sugarcane bagasse-derived adsorbents gave the best adsorption.</p> ER -