Water Pollutant Assessment of Wastewater Treatment Plants in Daegu
Heri Nurohman , 이태관 Tae-gwan Lee , 권혁준 Hyuk-jun Kwon
Abstract
Water pollution can be a severe problem for life and environmental health. Anthropogenic activity is one of the factors that can produce pollution in the water. Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is a solution to control pollutants from various anthropogenic activities. This study aims to investigate water quality parameters in several public WWTPs in Daegu City through a temporal and spatial variation approach. Wastewater from industrial sources has resulted in difficulties in the COD removal process (removal efficiencies: 85.3% - 92.7%) due to the presence of non-biodegradable organic content. Whereas Total Nitrogen (TN) became the most challenging pollutant to be removed at each WWTP with removal efficiencies ranging from 70.1% - 81.4%. Further effort is needed to increase the T-N removal efficiency in each WWTP and COD removal efficiency for industrial wastewater.
Key Words
COD/BOD raito, Water pollutant, Wastewater, Wastewater Treatment Plant