School of Bioprocess Engineering (FYP): Recent submissions
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Kinetic study of copper removal by rambutan seed
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2017-06)Rambutan seed, a fruit waste were used to produce biosorbent through environment friendly process. It were washed, dried, blended into powder and used for copper removal. Copper adsorption onto rambutan seed was depended ... -
Separation of acetic acid and water using reverse osmosis membranes
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2016-06)This study focuses on utilizing the reverse osmosis membrane to separate the acetic acid from aqueous mixture. A commercially AG membrane and three laboratory synthesized polysulfone (PSU) membranes were used in this ... -
Synthesis of low cost ultrafiltration membrane
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2017-06)This study is regarding synthesizing low cost ultrafiltration (UF) membrane that can perform well in removing dye. To simplify this study, dye has been chosen to study the performance rather than microorganism because ... -
Characterizing the kinetic of browning index, total chlorophyll and total phenolic content of Clinacanthus Nutans extract
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2016-06)Clinacanthus nutans is well known for a long time for being used as traditional medicine in Malaysia to treat skin rashes, venomous insect bite and fever. Due to the benefits of this plant, a few manufacturer starts to ... -
Pervaporation of Acetic acid/water mixture through Polyphenylsulfone membrane modified with Sodium Alginate/Polyaniline
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2017-06)The pervaporation process is a developed technique in separation technology. Although the development is still new, pervaporation is one of the membrane separation process that has attracted interest in the chemicals ... -
Removal of copper ions from aqueous solution by papaya seeds
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2016-06)Biosorbent has caught the attention in recent days because of its cheap price and its availabilty. Papaya seed is one of the biosorbent which can be obtained easily from Malaysia. Biosorbent was used to remove heavy metal ... -
Capturing Andrographis Paniculata herbal extract on gold nanoparticle to evaluate antimicrobial activity
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2017-06)This research is a way to accomplish the antimicrobial study towards different types of gram bacteria; in this project the microorganisms used are Escherichia coli and Bacillus sp, by Andrographis paniculata conjugated ... -
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation of flow in mixing reactor
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2016-06)Mixing reactor is a common unit operation in many industrial processes. It is often encountered multiphase flow for mixing process. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model based on the mixture formulation for multiphase ... -
Effect of internal variables on drying of Orthosiphon stamineus (Misai Kucing) plant
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2016-06)Orthosiphon stamineus (misai kucing) is one of medical herbs that is well known in south East Asia. The drying process need to be improved for increasing the quality of the O. stamineus as the product used for medical ... -
Effect of Adipic acid as crosslinking agent in Polyvinyl Alcohol/Nanocellulose from rice straw biocomposites
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2017-06)Studies were made to investigate the biodegradable polymers by adding natural polymers into non-degradable plastics material. Therefore in this research, an attempt was made by incorporating based natural polymer which ... -
Conjugation of polymer with gold nanoparticles to mediate high performance non-fouling tuberculosis sensing
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2016-06)This research encompasses the polymer conjugated gold nanoparticles (GNP) in mediating non-biofouling detection of 16 kDa antigen of tuberculosis. Polymer conjugated GNP is highly regarded because of the extensive proof ... -
Kinetic study of fenton oxidation for real rubber wastewater
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2017-06)Rubber wastewater usually contains pollutants such as dust, oil, grease, organic metal, heavy metal, and other chemicals. If the effluent is not properly managed, it can pollute the water supply or surrounding water bodies. ... -
Effect of parameters on Vermicompost’s Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium ratio from spent mushroom substrate
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2017-06)Vermicomposting is a cheap biotechnology tool to decompose a variety of wastes involving the joint action of earthworms and microorganisms. The objective of this study is to produce vermicompost from spent mushroom ... -
Pervaporation performance of composite poly(Dimethyl Siloxane) membrane for organic acid removal
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2016-06)Pervaporation and vapour permeation are membrane-based processes for separating binary or multi-component mixtures of miscellaneous organic fluids. This membrane-based separation process can potentially be used for recovery ... -
Degradation of petroleum refinery wastewater by using fenton reagent
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2016-06)In this modern and global society, industrial wastewater remediation symbolizes binding problem which need certain understanding and unique solutions. In this research, an extensive experimental study of Fenton oxidation ... -
Performance of zinc removal by durian shell
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2017-06)The durian shell is introduced as a new adsorbent for the removal of heavy metal from the aqueous solution. Various parameters, including pH (2-8), initial solution concentration (10-80 mg L-1), temperature (20-80 °C) ... -
Optimization of Fenton oxidation to treat textile wastewater
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2016-06)Studies were made to identify the characteristics of the textile wastewater and the operating parameter that affect for the Fenton treatment in the textile wastewater were assessed. The three variable considered in this ... -
Production of fermentable sugar from Red Seaweed with optimization of chemical and enzymatic hydrolysis
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2017-06)Red seaweed is a third generation biomass which offering several advantages over lignocellulosic biomass. Therefore, in order to evaluate the applicability of red seaweed as a potential biofuel resources, optimization of ... -
Optimization of enzymatic saccharification of mixed rice biomass to produce fermentable sugar
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2016-06)Conversion strategy of lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugar by alkaline pretreatment is one of the most feasible routes. The objective of this study was to investigate the optimization of enzymatic saccharification ... -
Kinetic study of activated carbon from palm kernel shell for copper removal
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Bioprocess Engineering, 2016-06)The production of alternative activated carbon has been resolved to replace the costly activated carbon to remove unwanted heavy metals from contaminated water at low cost. Heavy metals are very toxicity and can harm human ...