Production of Renewable Energy: Waste Water Treatment with Biogas Re-Use

Energy is strongly linked to the environment. Many energy sources are drawn directly from the environment requiring sound management for these sources to be sustainable. Energy extraction, production, processing and distribution have environmental impacts including air emissions, pollution, water quality and use, land use issues, soil degradation, as well as the disruption of ecosystems. As a company, PT Great Giant Pineapple (GGP) dealing with plantation and agricultural product processing produces wastes that potentially can be generated as bio-energy. The waste water treatment with biogas re-use in GGP will be reported in this paper. Two different wastewater treatments from pineapple factory and cassava factory were used to produce biogas. The wastewater produced from the factories was processed in the Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment (UASB) in the Biogas Plant which produces biogas (60 - 70 persen of methane content) as renewable energy. This kind of bio-energy was very beneficial to support the running program of sustainable development. Proceeding of National Seminar on Renewable Energy as Future Sustainable Energy Sources: Potency, prospect and Chalange in Indonesia. Colaboration PAJ Aceh with DAAD, September 21, 2013. P.49-52.