Ammonia-nitrogen and Phosphate Reduction by Bio-Filter using Factorial Design

Untreated landfill leachate is known to have endangered the environment. As such new treatment must be sought to ensure its cost-effective and sustainable treatment. Thus this paper reports the effectiveness of bio-filter to remove pollutants. In this research, the reduction of nutrients concentrati...

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Published in:IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2018-02, Vol.117 (1), p.12032
Main Authors: Kasmuri, Norhafezah, Mat Damin, Nur Ashikin, Omar, Megawati
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ammonia
Batch culture
Factorial design
Filtered wastewater
Landfills
Leachates
Nitrification
Nitrites
Nitrogen
Nitrogen removal
Nutrients
Pollutant removal
Pollutants
Waste disposal sites
Wastewater
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Summary:Untreated landfill leachate is known to have endangered the environment. As such new treatment must be sought to ensure its cost-effective and sustainable treatment. Thus this paper reports the effectiveness of bio-filter to remove pollutants. In this research, the reduction of nutrients concentration was evaluated in two conditions: using bio-filter and without bio-filter. Synthetic wastewater was used in the batch culture. It was conducted within 21 days in the initial mediums of 100 mg/L ammonia-nitrogen. The nitrification medium consisted of 100 mg/L of ammonia-nitrogen while the nitrite assay had none. The petri dish experiment was also conducted to observe the existence of any colony. The results showed 22% of ammonia- nitrogen reduction and 33% phosphate in the nitrification medium with the bio-filter. The outcome showed that the bio-filter was capable to reduce the concentration of pollutants by retaining the slow growing bacteria (AOB and NOB) on the plastic carrier surface. The factorial design was applied to study the effect of the initial ammonia-nitrogen concentration and duration on nitrite-nitrogen removal. Finally, a regression equation was produced to predict the rate of nitrite-nitrogen removal without conducting extended experiments and to reduce the number of trials experiment.
ISSN:1755-1307
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/117/1/012032