Institusion
Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur
Author
AINA , AZZAH ALI
Subject
TD201 Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes
Datestamp
2014-04-16 10:02:20
Abstract :
The goal of research is to examine removal efficiency of Rotating
Biological Contactor (RBC) reactor in treating wastewater from General
Hospital Haji, Surabaya.
Rotating Biological Contactor is biological wastewater treatment by using
rotated discs which are turned around by axis with the certain speed. RBC has
some advantages, for example the ease in operating, not require large area, some
variations of parameter that could be controlled such as the speed of rotation
disc, resirculation and detention time. The RBC reactor which was used in this
study consisted of three stages. Each stage had 10 discs as the media for
attaching the microbes. The laboratory scale RBC reactor was made of polyvinyl
chlorid. The design was as follows : the diameter of disc : 0,2 m, the length of the
reactor : 0,3 m, submerged disc : 40 % and the volume of each stage : 3,6 l. This
reserched used aerobic reactor, it called RBC and the variations are rotating disc
4 rpm, 6 rpm, 8 rpm, 10 rpm and 12 rpm, and detention time (td)1 hours, 1.5
hours, 2 hours, 2.5 hours, and 3 hours. Sample for this research is wastewater
from General Hospital Haji, Surabaya. The parameter are COD and TSS. The
result in this research shows that variations which efective to remove COD, are
in rotating disc 4 rpm with 3 hours of detention time at 91,74 %. The result in this
research shows that variations which efective to remove TSS, are in rotating disc
4 rpm with 3 hours of detention time at 94,70 %.
The results of this research confirmed that RBC reactor could treat the
General Hospital Haji wastewater. The concentration of all parameters in the
effluent was bellow the standart quality threshold of wastewater for hospital.
(Refers to Decree of Governor of East Java, No.61, 1999). The Changes of the
speed of rotation disc significantly affected the removal aside efficiency for all
parameters.