SCHEDULE 5A
(to be taken, read and construed as an
integral and essential part of this Agreement)
PROGRESS REPORT
Report Period : ________________(please indicate report period, eg. Q1/200*,Q2/200* etc)
A.
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number: 6364702
Project title: Production bio-compost from organic & agrowaste
Project leader: Prof Dr Mohd Ali Hassan
Project Duration : 20 (months)
Project Start date : 9 (month) 2008 (year)
Project End date : 9 (month) 2010 (year)
Tel: 03-89467590 Fax : 03-86567123 E-mail : alihas@biotech.upm.edu.my
B.
FINANCIAL PROGRESS
i. Approved Project Allocation : RM 1,490,000
Year 1 (200* ) : RM 1,155,000 Year 2 (200*) : RM 235,000 Year 3 (200*) : RM________
ii. Total Allocation Received Todate : RM 1,490,000 (including RM 100,000 for market
survey)
iii. Total Expenditure To date: RM
received X 100)
1,219,259.25 or 81.8% (∑ Expenditure / ∑ Allocation
iv. Balance of Allocation Todate : RM 170,740.75 (∑Allocation received – ∑ Expenditure)
v. Actual Project Expenditure (Pls report ∑ cumulative expenditure up to the past report
Report Period :
Is this performance in line with plan?
√ Jan-April
√ Yes
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May-Aug
Sept-Dec
No (Please complete para vi and vii)
vi.
Reasons for variations from budget (Please provide the reasons)
vii.
Proposed corrective action (Please give details of the proposed action)
C.
PHYSICAL PROGRESS
i. Milestone Achievement
No
Planned Milestones
M1
M2
Market Survey & feasibility study
Renovation
of
laboratory
and
Acquisition of special equipment
M3 Installation of packing and storage
facilities
M4 Optimisation of upscaled parameters
M5 Marketing & licensing of technology
Planned
Milestone
Date
6
(month/year)
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Achieve
d*
(Yes/No
Yes
)
No
Actual Completion
Date (month/year)
12
No
Jan 2010
20
8
No
-
May 2010
Sep 2010
March 2009
May 2009
* If No, please give reasons for non-achievement and proposed adjustments or corrective
actions in section C ii
ii. Planned milestone : Renovation of laboratory and acquisition of special equipment
Reasons for non-achievement :
In the early stages, the composting plant was proposed to be constructed in UPM. The site for the
construction of the compost plant was then changed to Felda Serting Hilir Palm Oil mill, Negeri Sembilan
on December 2008 due to the cost of transportation and availability of raw material. After discussion with
FPI, both parties agreed to develop the composting site in the neighbourhood of the windrow composting
plant at Felda Maokil Palm oil mill, Johor. The discussion and preparation of the plant layout was
conducted from January to March 2009. However, the planning was cancelled as the cost of building
construction was estimated to be higher than FPI`s budget. Therefore, UPM decided to overcome the
problems by reconsidering the original construction plan and site as was located at UPM Agricultural
Park.
Proposed adjustments/corrective actions:
The composter unit is currently fabricated outside UPM and the complete composting unit will be
installed after the completion of the building on July 2010. The composting system is expected to be
commissioned on September 2010.
Revised milestone completion date : 12(month)/2010(year)
iii.
Impact on project schedule (if applicable)
Request for project extention : 6(months)
New date of project completion : March(month)/2011(year)
Reasons for project extention :
The compost plant require 6 month for commissioning and trouble shooting from
September 2010 until March 2011.
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iv.
Project Achievement (please provide details on the project achievements, its status
and prospects with regards to the followings :)
1. Intellectual Property Rights (Patent, Industrial Design, Trademark, Copyright etc)
Mohd Ali Hassan, Azhari Samsu Baharuddin, Alawi Sulaiman, Khairul Anuar, Zubair Shafie, Hamidi
Abdul Hamid, Mohd Fuad Saron and Shahruddin Omar. Novel In-Vessel High Rate Composter for Oil
Palm Biomass, Organic and Municipal Waste. Patent pending: PCT application no:PCT/MY2009/000081
2. Publications and papers (International,national, books, citations etc)/ Award
a) Journal Papers (In press)
Azhari Samsu Baharuddin, Minato Wakisaka, Yoshihito Shirai, Suraini Abd-Aziz, Nor Aini Abdul Rahman,
Mohd Ali Hassan, 2009. Co-composting of empty fruit bunches and partially treated palm oil mill effluents in
pilot scale. International Journal of Agricultural Research, 4: 69-78.
Azhari Samsu Baharuddin, Nakamura Kazunori Suraini Abd-Aziz, Nor' Aini Abdul Rahman, Mohd Ali
Hassan, Minato Wakisaka, Kenji Sakai and Yoshihito Shirai, 2009. Characteristics and microbial succession in
co-composting of oil palm empty fruit bunch and partially treated palm oil mill effluent. The Open
Biotechnology Journal, 3: 87-95
Lim Siong Hock, Azhari Samsu Baharuddin, Mohd Najib Ahmad, Umi Kalsom Md Shah, Nor’ Aini Abdul
Rahman, Suraini Abd-Aziz, Mohd Ali Hassan and Yoshihito Shirai. 2009. Physicochemical Changes in
Windrow Co-Composting Process of Oil Palm Mesocarp Fiber and Palm Oil Mill Effluent Anaerobic Sludge.
Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 3(3): 2809-2816
Azhari Samsu Baharuddin, Mohamad Nafis Ab Razak, Lim Siong Hock, Mohd Najib Ahmad, Suraini AbdAziz, Nor’ Aini Abdul Rahman, Umi Kalsom Md Shah, Mohd Ali Hassan, Kenji Sakai and Yoshihito Shirai,
2010. Isolation and Characterization of Thermophilic Cellulase-Producing Bacteria from Empty Fruit BunchesPalm Oil Mill Effluent Compost. American Journal of Applied Sciences. 7(1):56-62
Azhari Samsu Baharuddin, Lim Siong Hock, Mohd Zulkhairi Md Yusof, Nor’ Aini Abdul Rahman, Umi
kalsom Md Shah, 2Mohd Ali Hassan, Minato Wakisaka, Kenji Sakai and Yoshihito Shirai, 2010. Effects of
Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) Anaerobic Sludge From 500m3 of Closed Anaerobic Methane Digested Tank
on Pressed-Shredded Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) Composting Process. African Journal of Biotechnology.
9(16):2427-2436
c) International conference/workshop/proceeding
Azhari Samsu Baharuddin, Mohd Ali Hassan, Suraini Abd Aziz, Minato Wakisaka, and Yoshihito Shirai.
Co-composting of Oil Palm Solid Biomass and Treated Palm Oil Mill Effluent in Pilot Scale. 5th Biomass
Asia Workshop, 4th December 2008, China
Azhari Samsu Baharuddin, Mohd Ali Hassan, Minato Wakisaka, Kenji Sakai and Yoshihito Shirai.
Possibility of production and CDM business of the organic fertilizer with the unused biomass of palm oil
industry. Society of Chemical Engineering Japan (SCEJ) 74th Annual Meeting, 18-20th March 2009,
Yokohama, Japan.
d) Award
1. Design, Research and Innovation Exhibition, University Putra Malaysia: 21-23th June 2009:
-A Novel High Rate Composter for oil palm biomass, organic and municipal solid waste (Gold Medal)
-Appropriate Technology for Accelerated Composting of Oil Palm Biomass
(Gold Medal)
2. The International Exposition of Research and Invention of Institutions of Higher Learning 2009,
Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre: 8-10 October 2009.
-A novel High Rate In-Vessel Composter for Oil Palm Biomass, Organic and Municipal Waste (Silver Medal)
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3.
Expertise Development ( PhD, Masters, Research Staff with new speciality etc)
4. Prototype (prototype name, type eg, lab / engineering / commercial scale etc)
5. Commercialisation (licensing, royalty, spin-off, direct sale etc)
1. General Comment (please provide additional information, if any, on the future direction of
this project in terms of its prospects to commercialization)
Date: 29th June 2010
Signature:
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Progress 1: Profiling of Pre-dominant Microbes and Isolation of Phosphate
Solubilizing Bacteria and Xylanase-producing Actinomycetes from Pressedshredded Empty Fruit Bunch-Palm Oil Mill Effluent Anaerobic Sludge Compost
This study revealed the microbial diversity of the pre-dominant microbes throughout cocomposting process of pressed-shredded EFB and POME anaerobic sludge. The DGGE
analysis suggested that prominent microbes detected in the compost samples were mainly
derived from POME anaerobic sludge addition throughout the treatment and belongs to
Pseudomonas genera. In addition, the DGGE profiles in the final matured compost also
lead to isolation, characterization and identification of the potential strains of phosphate
solubilizing bacteria (PSB1) and xylanase-producing actinomycetes (ACT1 and ACT2).
The isolated strain of PSB1 was found capable in solubilizing the insoluble phosphate
(tricalcium phosphate) as indicated by the increase in phosphate solubility to about 69%
after 15 days of incubation. Meanwhile, ACT2 was found capable in secreting xylanase
during fermentation. The isolated strain ACT2 produced comparably higher activities of
Xylanase than strain ACT1. The maximum specific activity of xylanase obtained from
strain ACT2 at day 10 of fermentation was 31.2 U/mg protein. The results of DNA
sequence and phylogenetic analysis showed that the isolated strain of PSB1 gave the
highest homology (99%) to Pseudomonas mosselii strain. Meanwhile, the isolated strain
of ACT2 was known as Streptomyces griseorubens (100% similarity). The information
regarding the pre-dominant microbes involved in co-composting process of EFB-POME
anaerobic sludge as well as isolation of P. mosselii (PSB1) and S. griseorubens (ACT2)
were important for future development of plant growth stimulant and other bio-products.
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Progress 2: Construction of Accelerated and Controlled Compost plant (UPM-KITMTDC)
The construction progress of compost plant building is shown in Figure 1 to Figure 5.
The compost plant building is expected to be completed before 20th July 2010.
Installation of the compost equipment will be carried out after the building construction.
The commissioning of compost plant will be conducted from September until March
2010.
Figure 1: Compost plant layout
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Figure2: Proposed compost plant building
Figure 3: Building construction progress
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Figure 4: Windrow turning area, leachate collection system and storage area
Figure 5: Transparent roofing construction for windrow drying process
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