Monitoring of Anaerobic Conditions in Septic Tank Bombs with Arduino Platform

Breno Rodrigues Fonseca; Daniel Moraes Santos; Fagner Paixão de Sousa; Iago Prado Cardoso; Igor Queiroz de Souza; Lincoln Moreira Guedes; Elton Santos Franco

Breno Rodrigues Fonseca Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7904-6719
Daniel Moraes Santos Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6355-9616
Fagner Paixão de Sousa Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4415-8507
Iago Prado Cardoso Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6473-1377
Igor Queiroz de Souza Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1100-2330
Lincoln Moreira Guedes Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5716-5039
Elton Santos Franco Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5296-4790

Keywords: Septic drum tank, Arduino Platform, Monitoring of anaerobic conditions

Abstract

Septic tanks are one of the oldest methodologies for sewage treatment and are, even today, extensively used in all countries of the world as a form of primary treatment of domestic sewage. The bacteria responsible for purifying the effluent in septic tanks are strict anaerobic bacteria and do not survive in the presence of oxygen. Therefore, the objective of this work is to use an Arduino platform to monitor these environmental conditions. Making it necessary to use temperature and pH sensors for the needs and programming of the Arduino platform, adapting it for the use of monitoring specific conditions in a plastic bomb chamber.The materials needed to install the monitoring system are sensors, a module, an Arduino platform, cables and connectors. The monitoring system is easy to read, with interdisciplinary potential, as it makes it possible to determine the temperature and pH values quickly, accurately and with knowledge related to the programming language, microbiology, chemistry and environment, respectively.