ACCELERATION OF POME BIODEGRADATION WITH NITROGEN AND PHOSPHATE

Jubaidi Jubaidi (Poltekkes Kemenkes Bengkulu)
Intan Lusia Febianti (Poltekkes Kemenkes Bengkulu)
Arie Ikhwan Saputra (Poltekkes Kemenkes Bengkulu)

Proceeding of Bengkulu International Conference on Health
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): Proceeding of The 3rd Bengkulu International Conference on Health (B-ICON 2023)

Indonesia as an oil producing country also produces processed palm oil waste known as palm oil-mill effluent (POME). The main problem with POME is the high levels of COD in waters. The purpose of this research was to measure the acceleration of POME biodegradation after intervention with the administration of Phosphate and Nitrogen by measuring the COD value. The research was experimental with a One–Group Pretest-Posttest Design approach. The results showed that there was an accelerated biodegradation reduction in COD content with the highest dose ratio percentage N2:P4 with a value of 52.80% after treatment with the addition of various doses of nitrogen and phosphate to blanks for 30 days; and there was an accelerated biodegradation reduction in COD content with the highest dose ratio percentage N4:P2 with a value of 62.41% after the addition of various doses of nitrogen and phosphate to the blank for 40 days. It is recommended that future researchers use other dosage variants to determine the possibility of better acceleration of biodegradation.