The effectiveness of corn cob activated carbon in rainwater harvesting filtration system

Author

Abu Bakar, Ahmad Ashrif ; Hassan, Nor Syamira

Author_Institution

Fac. of Civil Eng., Univ. Teknol. MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

19-21 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

89

Abstract

The aim of this research is to design a rainwater filtration system by using an activated carbon. The activated carbon had been act as one of the filter medium to filtrate the water. Three filters were design, namely Filter A, Filter B and Filter C, to determine the most effective filter that can be used in the study. To determine the effectiveness of the filter, seven parameters were measured that is temperature, colour, turbidity, total suspended solid (TSS), pH, conductivity and Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BODs). The results shows that the removal of BODs is up to 82%, TSS removal is 55.6% and turbidity removal is 28.8%.

Keywords

activated carbon; agricultural products; filtration; pH; rain; temperature; turbidity; water supply; water treatment; BOD removal; TSS removal; biochemical oxygen demand; colour; conductivity; corn cob activated carbon; filter medium; pH; rainwater harvesting filtration system; temperature; total suspended solid; turbidity removal; Carbon; Carbon dioxide; Color; Conductivity; Filtration; Oxygen; Solids; activated carbon; corn cob; filter; rainwater harvesting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology, Informatics, Management, Engineering, and Environment (TIME-E), 2014 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bandung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4806-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TIME-E.2014.7011597

Filename

7011597