Using filtration as a technology to remove pollutants in domestic wastewater

Abstract

Abstract Most of the wastewater produced comes from household activities. Household wastewater currently tends to be directly disposed into water bodies without prior treatment. As a result, the concentration of pollutants, especially TSS and COD in the waters became high. It is necessary to manage household wastewater, so that the disposed waste is still within safe limits that do not pollute the environment. Filtration is one of treatment methods which is generally used in the processing of clean water, but the materials used in the filtration process also have the ability to reduce pollutant levels in wastewater. This study aims to find out that filtration can be used as a method of household wastewater treatment. The method in this study is to conduct a trial using a simple filtration method to analyse the decrease in household waste levels. The result shows that the percentage of TSS and COD removal are 79.01% and 77.84%. The conclusion in this study is that filtration can be used as a method of household wastewater treatment because the material used can reduce the concentration of TSS and COD to below the specified quality standard.