Filtration treatment of processing kapuas river’s water by coral sands/kaolinite/activated carbon

Filtration treatment of processing Kapuas river’s water in the Sepuk Keladi village, West Kalimantan has been conducted. The aims of the treatments to process kapuas river’s water with the characteristics of peat into clean water. Processing method using flow-up-flow filtration system with filter media coral sands / kaolinite / activated carbon. Coral sands was obtained from Kijing beach and characterized using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and BET method. The XRD spectrum showed strongest peak at 33.09°, 52.40°, 29.34° and it can be concluded that mineral was verified corresponding to calcium consisting of calcite phase. While the result of BET plot point that surface area of coral sands was 4.954 m2/g. The effectiveness of the filtration media was determined by testing parameters such as pH, total suspended solid (TSS), total dissolved solid (TDS), chloride as Cl, and iron as Fe, before and after filtration of Kapuas river’s water. The result show that kapuas river’s water after filtration treatment was incre...