Efficiency Study of Increasing the Domestic

Wastewater Quality Using Zig – Zag Aerator

Tri Budi PRAYOGO, Dian CHANDRASASI, Naci Sevim KARINDA
Department of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, 65145 Indonesia

Introduction Materials and Methods

• The rapid growth in population and accompanied by increasingly Variables:
widespread settlements will affect the amount of domestic waste • Degree of plate:
generated by activities in the household. 0o, 5o, and 10o
• Various domestic waste water treatment techniques have been • Number of plate:
developed. 4 and 6
• Cascade aerator was the one of simple domestic waste water treatment • Discharge:
• Cascade aerator; Full (0,07 lt/sc) and Half
 Technique to build was simple (0,02 lt/sc)
 Cost was not so expensive
 Easy to implemented
Observed parameters:
Cascade aerator can increasing the oksigen level 60 – 80% from the DO, Turbidity and pH
amount of highest dissolved oxygen in the water (Hartini, 2012)
Initial Condition of waste water:
Zig - Zag Aerator is an DO: 2,96 mg/l , Turbidity: 668 NTU
innovation from the cascade and pH: 8,4
aerator. The difference lies in
the arrangement of the ladder.
Zig-Zag Aerator consists of a
Disadvantage of discharge regulator, Zig-Zag
Experimental design: completely Randomized Design Method
Cascade Aerator: Aerator plate, reservoir, and
(RDM) in 2x3x2 factorial with 3 repetitions
need more space to support frame
Treatment (Yi) Factorial Number (Yj)
implemented Discharge Degree of Plate Number of Plate 1 2 3
J1 D1K1J1 D1K1J1 D1K1J1
K1
J2 D1K1J2 D1K1J2 D1K1J2
Aim of this research D1 K2
J1 D1K2J1 D1K2J1 D1K2J1
J2 D1K2J2 D1K2J2 D1K2J2
J1 D1K3J1 D1K3J1 D1K3J1
This study aims to find out which treatment is more efficient in K3
J2 D1K3J2 D1K3J2 D1K3J2
processing domestic wastewater, find out the effect of number of plate, J1 D2K1J1 D2K1J1 D2K1J1
degree of plate, and discharge in processing domestic waste water on K1
J2 D2K1J2 D2K1J2 D2K1J2
DO (Dissolved Oxygen), Turbidity, and pH parameters and determine the J1 D2K2J1 D2K2J1 D2K2J1
D2 K2
efficiency of each treatment. J2 D2K2J2 D2K2J2 D2K2J2
J1 D2K3J1 D2K3J1 D2K3J1
K3
J2 D2K3J2 D2K3J2 D2K3J2

Results and Discussion

• Degree of plate have influence to the level of Dissolved Oxygen because the more number
of plates the longer the aeration process runs
• In the low discharge, the waste water can be in direct contact with the air for a long time,
resulting in a high Dissolved Oxygen (DO) content
• Flat degree of plate will make contact with wastewater with air longer, becuase of that
increasing the degree of aeration that occurs
• Degree of plate have influence to the level of turbidity because the more number of plates
the longer the aeration process runs
• Low discharge and more number of plate, causing more suspended solids are left on the
plate.
• Stepper degree of plate will
causing the suspended solid
more easy to leave the plate.

• The discharge degree and

number of plate have no
influence to the pH because
there were not chemist process
occurred in this zig – zag
aerator

Conclusions
• The result shown that in the domestic waste water treatment with zig – zag aerator, degree of plate, number of plate and discharge have influence to the
result of DO (Dissolved Oxygen) and turbidity.
• From the entire 12 treatments the increasing value of DO (Dissolved Oxygen) sebesar 17% - 59%, while for the value of turbidity were decreasing for
16% - 31%.
• The pH of domestic waste water for entire treatments was not influenced by the changing of the variables, because there were not chemist process
occured in this zig – zag aerator.
• From the combination of discharge, degree of plate and umber of plate, the treatment that resulting he optimal result was treatment with half discharge,
degree 0o and number of plate 6.

This project was funded as a list of budget implementation (DIPA) of the fiscal year 2018 from Faculty of
Acknowledgements Engineering, Universitas Brawijaya (Agreement No. 47/UN10.F07/PN/2018), and we are thankful for their support.