Mohd Faidz Mohamad Shahimin
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Mohd Faidz Mohamad Shahimin
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Mohd Faidz , Mohamad Shahimin
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Mohamad Shahimin, Mohd Faidz
Mohamad Shahimin, M. F.
Shahimin, M. F.
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57006554500
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B-9547-2018

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  • Publication
    A mini review and bibliometric analysis of palm oil mill effluent in past five years
    ( 2023-01-01)
    Mohd Pauzi F.
    ;
    Muda K.
    ;
    Basri H.F.
    ;
    Omoregie A.I.
    ;
    Hong C.Y.
    ;
    Aftar Ali N.S.
    ;
    Mohamed Najib M.Z.
    ;
    Mohd Amin M.F.
    ;
    Ismail S.
    ;
    Mohd Faidz Mohamad Shahimin
    ;
    Farrah Aini Dahalan
    Indonesia and Malaysia are countries with the highest palm oil production globally. Indonesia is leading the list, followed by Malaysia and Thailand. Palm oil production generates countless benefits to the economy, environment, and society of the contributed countries. This industry provides high income and collection of methane gas for biogas generation and economy of the local community. However, despite the benefits, this industry has some difficulties, including treating the Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME). POME contains a complex microbial structure and a high amount of oil, grease, and suspended solids. The existing treatment of POME consists of many drawbacks that lead to poor quality of the effluent and failure to meet the minimum requirement from the Department of Environment (DOE). Advance Oxidization Process (AOP), bio granulation, and ponding system are among the research that have been tried to treat POME. The local government still uses old-style treatment types such as Conventional Activated Sludge (CAS), ponding system, and anaerobic digester tank. This review paper presents a mini review of positive and negative consequences the palm oil industry as well as examine a bibliometric study towards the modern research development of the POME. This mini review concludes that the palm oil industry encourages the positive impact in economy, environment and social to the many parties especially country and local community. Besides that, the existing treatment of the POME have to be improved appropriate with the increment of the demand and era.
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  • Publication
    Ultrasound-assisted extraction of starch from oil palm trunk: an optimization by response surface methodology
    (Penerbit UTM Press, 2023-03)
    Nur Shahidah Aftar Ali
    ;
    Khalida Muda
    ;
    Mohamed Zuhaili Mohamed Najib
    ;
    Mohamad Faiz Mohd Amin
    ;
    Shahrul Ismail
    ;
    Mohd Faidz Mohamad Shahimin
    ;
    Farrah Aini Dahalan
    Higher production of palm oil in Malaysia has resulted in a significant amount of oil palm biomass including oil palm trunk (OPT). OPT has been studied as an alternative starch source. To date, reports on the extraction of starch from OPT using ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) are limited. The application of UAE is considered to be a simpler and effective way in starch extraction compared to conventional extraction methods. This study aims to investigate the potential of ultrasound-assisted extraction to extract starch from OPT, and optimization using response surface methodology. A three-factor central composite design (CCD) was designed to determine the effects of variables on response. The three variables involved in the study, namely: sonication temperature (45-65°C), sonication time (30-60 min) and sodium metabisulfite concentration (0.5-1.5% w/v). All of the data were analysed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The R2 value (95.6%) and model (p <0.0001), indicating the acceptability of the model and significance in the interaction between independent variables. At the optimum conditions of 52.84°C temperature, 30.66 min exposure time and 0.58% w/v sodium metabisulfite concentration, the starch yield achieved its optimum value by 34.21%. Therefore, this study proved the potential of UAE in extracting higher OPT starch.
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