Research Article

Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent by a Microbial Consortium Developed from Compost Soils

Table 2

Enumeration and identification of the adapted microbial populations in the samples.

Microorganism Average total count

Bacteria
(a) Pseudomonas fluorescens  CFU/mL
(b) Flavobacterium sp.
(c) Micrococcus sp.
(d) Bacillus subtilis

Fungi
(a) Aspergillus niger colonies/mL
(b) Aspergillus tamari
(c) Aspergillus sp.
(d) Penicillium sp.
(d) Trichoderma sp.
(e) Mucor sp.