Water Treatment Process using Manganese Zeolite Filter, Activated Carbon Filter, and Silica Sand Filter

Abstract

Clean water is a basic of daily human need, such as for bathing, washing, drinking water consumption. Until now, the community is still faced with several complex problems related to the availability of clean water that has not been fully resolved by the local government. One of the problems faced today is how to treat existing water sources using a simple system so that water containing chemicals that exceed the quality standards, cloudy and polluted can be processed into clean water suitable for public consumption as a solution the amount of clean water can be increased. The purpose of this research is to treat water containing chemicals such as iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), the like which exceeds water quality standards into clean water so that it is fit for consumption. The method used is filtering using Manganese Zeolite Filter, Activated Carbon Filter, and Silica Sand Filter. Laboratory results showed water parameters related to health, namely Total Coliform showed results of n<2 (quality standard 0.0) while the physical parameters for TDS are 263 mg/l (quality standard 1000 mg/l) and chemical properties pH 8.0 mg/l (standard 8.0 -8.50), iron (Fe) 0.02 mg/l (standard 0.03), mercury (Hg) < 0.0008 mg/l (quality standard 0.001), cadmium (Cd) < 0.005 mg/l (quality standard 0.05), lead (Pb) 0.03 mg/l (standard 0.05) and organic matter (KmnO4) 7.13 mg/l (quality standard 10). The results of laboratory tests show that the water treated by the system is suitable for daily consumption but is not ready yet to drink like mineral water on the market. For water can be drunk, it must be boiled first to make sure that the bacteria contained in the water die.