EVALUATION OF WATER TREATMENT PLANT IN INDONESIAN

AEROSPACE

M Rezky Aditya
1
and Ir. Arief Sudradjat, MIS.,Ph.D.
2

Majoring of Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung
Jl Ganeca no.10 Bandung 40132
1
mrezky_aditya@yahoo.co.id and
2
arief.sudradjat@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
Indonesian Aerospace Company is a company which activities are engaged in the aviation industry. The company
consists of four main activities, namely manufacturing and design of aircraft, aircraft parts manufacturing, aircraft
maintenance services, and manufacture of defense equipment. Production processes are surely need clean water. Other
than for production processes, the water is also needed for daily work activities. Indonesian Aerospace Company use
the water supply from the water treatment plant and from artesian well. The Water Treatment Plants water production
capacity is 15 liters/second. While the artesian wells is 1,5 liters/second. The Instalations Raw Water supply is came
from Cibeureum River. To treat water into a water that fit for use and also fit for production processes use it is needed
a treatment system and a good water distribution from the intake to reservoir and then the water is ready to distribute.
Key Word: Indonesian Aerospace Company, Water Treatment Plant, Artesian Well , and Processes Production

ABSTRAK
PT. Dirgantara Indonesia adalah perusahaan yang kegiatannya bergerak di bidang industri penerbangan. Perusahaan
ini terdiri dari empat kegiatan utama, yaitu manufaktur dan desain pesawat terbang, pembuatan onderdil pesawat,
jasa perawatan pesawat terbang, dan pembuatan alat-alat pertahanan. Proses-proses produksi tersebut tentunya
membutuhkan air bersih . Selain untuk proses produksi, air bersih ini juga diperlukan untuk kegiatan kerja sehari-hari.
PT. Dirgantara Indonesia menggunakan pasokan air bersih dari instalasi pengolahan air dan juga sumur bor. Instalasi
air bersih tersebut memiliki kapasitas produksi air 15 liter/detik. Sedangkan sumur bor nya memiliki kapasitas produksi
air 1,5 liter/detik. Sumber air baku Instalasinya berasal dari Sungai Cibeureum. Untuk mengolah air tersebut menjadi
air bersih yang layak digunakan dan kondisinya sesuai untuk proses produksi dibutuhkan suatu sistem pengolahan dan
pendistribusian air yang baik mulai dari intake hingga reservoir dan air tersebut siap untuk didistribusikan.
Kata Kunci: PT. Dirgantara I ndonesia, I nstalasi Pengolahan Air, Sumur Bor, dan Proses Produksi












I. PREFACE
PT. Indonesian Aerospace (IAe) is an aerospace industry company. In which beside for the
employee activity, water supply is needed for production process too. To fulfill the water demand, IAe
build a Water treatment plant (WTP) and also construct many deep well. The WTP is taking water supply
from Cibeureum River. The water product from WTP is distributed to all of IAe building for daily activities
use and also distributed to production section to be processed again for production processes use. Aside the
water supply from WTP, IAe also taking water supply from 7 deep wells. However as for now only one
remaining deep well that still in use.

II. EXISTING CONDITION
IAes Water Treatment Plant (WTP) have a production capacity of 15 liters per second. The WTP
itself was built at 1988 and until now all of this WTP units havent been replaced, only minor maintenance
being done. The WTP condition is currently on bad shape, when previously it has two sections that worked
while now its only have one section that still working.


Figure 1 IAe's Water Treatment Plant
Here are the listings of IAe Water Treatment Plant units:
- Intake
This unit function is for controlling the water discharge that enter the plant, which is did by the
sluice. There also a Bar Screen, which function is to screening the trash or many similar things
that entering the channel. However the bar screens slope doesnt meet the design criteria.
- Pre-Sedimentation Basin
This unit function is to settle the suspended solid from the water. There is also another bar screen
before the basin. This unit has 4 basins.
- Raw Water Pump
This unit is pumping the water from the Pre-sedimentation basins to the next unit. There are 2
primary pump and 1 reserve pump, however one of primary pump was broken and now the reserve
pump is being used when the only working primary pump is on maintenance. However the reserve
pumps capacity power is smaller than the primary one.
- Coagulation
The coagulation type used in this WTP is hydraulic coagulation. In which the coagulant mixed to
water by using dosing pump. This unit use PAC (Polyalumunium Chloride) as its coagulant.
- Clarifier
The Lamella Clarifier is used for sedimentation phase at this WTP. It is a compact clarifier that
doesnt need a large space. In this unit, the water is added by a mixture of Soda ash and calcium
hypochlorite using a dosing pump. The soda ash itself act as water softener while the calcium
hypochlorite as disinfectant.
- Sand Filter
After lamella clarifier, the water goes to the sand filtration unit. Originally, for one section of WTP
there are two sand filter. However, the still working section have its one filter out of order which
resulting an overflow discharge. The overflow water is sent back to the river. For backwashing,
the unit use an air compressor backwash system.


- Reservoir
The processed water is contained within this unit. The water is pumped to the Reservoir Tower to
be distributed later.
- Reservoir Tower
This unit distributing the processed water to all company area. The distribution is using gravity
method (not using pump).
- Ion Exchanger
This unit is located near the Electroplating process unit (for aeroplane and spare part production).
With ion exchange process, the distributed water is demineralized for use of flushing process at
the Electroplating unit.

There also a deep well (GPM KPII Deep Well) that only distributed the water to the IAe central
building (GPM building). The deep well have a capacity production for 1,5 liters per second.


Figure 2 GPM KPII Deep Well

III. DISCUSSION

- Water Treatment Plant (WTP) units
This WTP is must be repaired, because the WTP condition is in a bad shape. With its aging
condition (about 24 years), almost all of the units is covered with rusts. Also one of two sections
in this WTP is currently out of order. It is not repaired yet because the company doesnt have a
budget for it.
- Water quality
From Table 1 and 2 it can be seen that the water from WTP and the deep well is feasible to be
used as clean water, although for the water WTP produced it isnt meet the physical criteria
standards. It is because the lab. result is using Permenkes no.416/1990 in which the standards is
quite low than the newer one so the lab. result meet the physical criteria standards.




Table 1 May 2012 IAe Water Treatment Plant Lab Quality Results
Parameter Units PMK 492/2010 Lab Result
Physics
Color TCU 15 35
Electrical Conductivity mhos/Cm - 404,1
Turbidity NTU 5 9,03
Chemical
Cl2 mg/L 5 0,11
NO3 mg/L 50 2,59
NO2 mg/L 3 1,64
^

pH - 6,5 8,5 7,07

Table 2 May 2012 IAe Deep Well Lab Quality Results
Parameter Units PMK 492/2010 Lab Result
Physics
Color TCU 15 15
Electrical Conductivity mhos/Cm - 330,5
Turbidity NTU 5 1,76
Chemical
Cl2 mg/L 5 0,05
NO3 mg/L 50 0,78
NO2 mg/L 3 0,02
pH - 6,5 8,5 7,77

- Deep Well
The use of deep well is need a groundwater level subsidence data, in which acts as groundwater
supply monitoring. IAe itself doesnt have the data, which is fatal that they cant monitor the
groundwater supply and end up draining the groundwater supply.
- Residual Sludge
The sludge and another residual materials that produced by WTP are not treated before its
disposed to the river. This is showing that in the WTP the clean production is not yet implemented.

IV. SUGGESTION
- All units in the WTP is must be repaired. Considering the company budge, at least the sand filter
is the one must be repaired first among other units. With two sand filter in one section can
operating again it can fix the overflow problem.
- IAe must have the Groundwater level subsidence data, to monitor the groundwater supply so it
wont be depleted and also prevent the ground subsidence because of the absence of groundwater.
And also they must do the groundwater conservation, e.g. by construct an infiltration wells and
polder. IAe itself havent do any groundwater conservation attempt.
- The sludge and another residual materials must be processed first before get disposed. No need to
build a new waste water treatment plant just send the residual to the existing treatment plant, for
instance the treatment plant on the Electroplating section.



BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan No.416 Tahun 1990 Tentang Syarat-syarat dan Pengawasan
Kualitas Air
2. Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan No.492 Tahun 2010 Tentang Persyaratan Kualitas Air Minum