Efficiency of effective microorganisms (EM) in mudballs as bioremediator of Wastewater [manuscript]
Loading...
Date
2018
Authors
Norielle C. De Olon
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
The study focused on the effect of EM mud balls and liquid EM in water quality parameters such as dissolved oxygen, pH and level of ammonia. The study had 4 treatments, each replicated three times. The treatments were: Treatment 1 (control), Treatment 2 (mud ball with no EM), Treatment 3 (mud ball with EM) and treatment 4 (Liquid EM mixture). The experiment has been done in plastic buckets with the area of 0.12 square meter and the volume of 60 liters (Fig. 1). Three inches of the bucket height is filled with pond bottom soil. The plastic buckets is filled with 50 liters of water to articially create a pond condition and then applied 5 kilograms of chicken manure. The treatments and their replicates will be arranged randomly following a completely randomized design. The experiment lasted for 30 days. On the mean of the result in all parameters, most of the water parameters have improve in quality however, only pH and Un-ionized ammonia showed a significant difference after the conduct of the experiment. From this study it can be concluded that EM mud ball and EM in liquid both can enhance some of the water parameters in such exact concentration prior to the toxicity/level of pollutant of the water.