EVALUASI INSTALASI PENGOLAHAN AIR LIMBAH RUMAH SAKIT RK CHARITAS PALEMBANG

Abstract

Hospital wastewater is one of the pollution sources to the environment that can cause negative impact on human health and disruption into biotic life. Hospital wastewater must be treated before it discharged into the environment. RK Charitas Hospital Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) has not been evaluated. Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) of wastewater hospital consists of BOD, COD, TSS, ammonia, phosphate, and total coliform. The analysis results of RK Charitas Hospital Palembang's wastewater showed that the wastewater still have high level of ammonia (NH3) and phosphate (PO4) that do not sufficient to the environmental quality standards and other terms are at the threshold. Phosphate (PO4) level is 2.134 to 2.213 mg/l which exceeded the environmental quality standards is 2 mg/l and ammonia (NH3) level is 0.174 to 0.186 that exceeded the environmental quality standards is 0.1 mg/l. This research was conducted to evaluate the process, processing time, material, and costs of WWTP at RK Charitas Hospital Palembang and provide a solution for redesign a miniature WWTP that will be simulated. It is expected that the proposed redesign Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in RK Charitas Hospital will produce eligible effluent of hospital waste water towards environment quality standards.