Total suspended solid is the residue retained on a glass fibre filter disk with a specific

pore size, measured after being dried at a specific temperature. The filter used for the
determination of total suspended solid in this experiment is glass fibre filter disk with pore
size 12.5cm. In order to reduce the error, the glass fibre filter disk was dried in the oven at
103OC to 105OC until the weight of the glass fibre filter disk no longer changes. Before
weight, the glass fibre filter was cooled in dessicator. When weight of the filter is constant, 10
ml of the homogenize water sample was filtered using getle suction and 10 ml of distilled
water was used to wash the glass filter disk. Make sure that the water sample use to filter is
homogenize. According to John, the TSS analytical method uses a predetermined volume
from the original water sample obtained while the sample is being mixed with a magnetic
stirrer. In this experiment, centrifuging method or Getle suction was use during the filteration
because the water sample containing an excessive amount suspended matter and containing
colloidal matter are difficult to filter. Then, the glass fibre filter disk was dried in oven at
103OC to 105oC to remove moisture, so there is no water. The increase in weight of the glass
filter disk represents the total suspended solid. The result was produce depend on pore size of
the glass fibre filter disk. Therefore, the total suspended solid in this experiment is 8800 mg/L
using the formula below :

TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLID =

A+ B
C

x106

41.074240.9862
10

= 8800 mg/L
Where:
A = Sample and filter weight, g
B = Filter weight, g

X 106

C = Volume of sample, ml

REFERENCE
John R. Gray, G. Douglas Glysson, Lisa M. Turcios, and Gregory E. Schwarz. 2000.
Comparability of Suspended-sediment concentration And total suspended solids data.
U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Water-Resources Investigations Report 00-4191
Reston, Virginia 2000. http://www.jlakes.org/web/wrir00-4191.pdf