Influence of Operational Condition on the Performance of Halotolerant Enriched - Activated Sludge System for Treating Medium Salinity Peanut Roasted Wastewater.

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the influence of operational condition on the performance of halotolerant enriched - activated sludge system for treating high organic wastewater with medium salinity from roasted peanut industry. Roasted peanut wastewater with VLR ranged from 0.268 to 4.7 kg COD/m3.day and Chloride concentration ranged between 1582 - 4392 mg/L was treated continuously for almost 77 days. Two identical reactor with Volume 25 L, namely R1 a conventional Activated Sludge (AS) System and R2, a halotolerant enriched-AS. Both reactors were running with operational condition: HRT (9 h to 46 h) and MLSS (1000-6000 mg/L). Compared to conventional AS system, Halotolerant enriched-Activated sludge system could remove average of 86.7% COD, compared with conventional AS which was 85.7%. Average COD effluent of Halotolerant Enriched-Activated Sludge was also considerably lower, which was 127 mg/L, than conventional AS which was 150 mg/L. Halotolerant enriched-activated sludge also produced less sludge, giving a high F/M ratio (4.9) compared with conventional AS (3.5). In order to make effluent fulfilled stream standard regulation (at central java region COD was150 mg/L), the favorable operational condition for both reactors would be at VLR 0.268 to 2.03 kg COD, HRT was 25 hours HRT, with MLSS was 2584 – 3956 mg/L and maximum chloride concentration 1920 mg/L.

Water Desalination and Bioelectricity Generation Using Three Chambers Microbial Salinity Cell Reactor with Electrolyte Recirculation

“…Organic wastewater with high salinity content is mostly generated from the food and beverage industries such as fish processing, roasted peanut, and ketchup (Yuliasni et al, 2018). Due to the feasibility factor, highly organic wastewater is mostly treated using biological treatment (Kadir et al, 2020;Tangahu et al, 2019), while high salinity is efficiently removed by desalination.…”