Abstract
The dairy industry’s wastewater is the pollution problems that must be concerned. Since dairy wastewater tends to be easily biodegradable, the commonly wastewater treatment technology is biological treatment. The efficiency of reducing COD in the aeration tank of PT. AN was about 39.54% compared to the theoretical that can be achieved until 90%. Therefore, this research objective was to improve the efficiency of COD reduction in the aerobic-activated sludge process of PT. AN. The research was done by laboratory experimental method with variations of the concentration and type of the activated sludge applied, also variations in Bacillus cereus bacteria addition. The performance was measured by the COD reduction efficiency after 9-hour aeration and 3-hour sedimentation. The result showed that by increasing 100% of the activated sludge concentration, the process could increase the COD reduction from 20.3% to 49.8%. The 50:50 combination of existing activated sludge and other activate sludge taken from non-dairy industry’s WWTP got worse result, with the COD reduction from 20.3% to 15.9 %. The better result was shown by Bacillus cereus bacteria addition, the COD reduction can achieve 67.0% with 4.7 % bacteria addition and 97.0% COD reduction can be achieved with 9% bacteria addition.
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