Integrated Anoxic-Oxic Sequencing Batch Reactor Combined with Coconut Fiber Waste as Biofilm and Adsorbent Media

Abstract

Coconut fiber waste has the potential to become a value-added product as a biofilm media and an adsorbent. The addition of biofilm media and adsorbent is important because it reduces the amount of sludge produced in wastewater. Furthermore, the quality of wastewater produced by the Integrated Anoxic-Oxic Sequencing Batch Reactor (IASBR)process with the addition of biofilm media and adsorbents can be used as clean water. The waste - water used comes from apartment wastewater. The Integrated Anoxic-Oxic Sequencing Batch Reactor was used to determine the optimal anoxic-aerobic processing time in a tropical climate. The study will further compare the efficiency of the two by using discarded coconut fiber as an additional adsorbent and biofilm media. The optimal adsorbent dose and weight of waste coconut fiber, as well as hydraulic retention time optimization, were all exam - ined. As a result, clean water was discovered to be the primary product after the addition of adsorbent and biofilm media made from waste coconut fiber.