Judul: Prototype Seaweed Washing Machines Based on Hybrid Technology
Abstrak: Seaweed has a high economic value in terms of its considerable use in various industries of sweets, cosmetics, ice cream, flavourings, bakery, sauce, silk, meat/fishery canning, medicine and iron-rod welding. In 2005,Indonesia has declared that seaweed as one of the leading commodities to be prioritized and revitalized. To produce quality of industrial-scale seaweed has necessary a serious handling, start from harvesting process, uploading, washing, drying, up to manufacturing caraggenan.This study has tried to produce a seaweed washing machine that capable to improve the quality of the seaweed in the washing process. This washing machine is based on hybrid technology that can be operated using energy from pedal-powered and electrical-powered generated from solar panels.The washing machine resemble three-wheeled transport vehicle using pedal-powered for mobility. Activity of seaweed washing process using plastic drum that rotated. There are two different size of plastic drum used in washing machine, the bigger size for static water storage containers and the little one for dynamic (rotation) using pedal-powered or electrical motor.The rolled chain transmission that connected with integrated toothed gear is used to ratate a dynamic drum. The different between pedal-powered and electrical-motor powered lies in process to rotated dynamic drum. Pedal-powered use manpower to rotated dynamic drum but electrical motor powered from electrical that generated from solar panel. Washing machine with pedal-powered similar like pedal powered that contained in bicycle. Solar panel systems which is the source energy for generated electrical motor consists of solar panel itself, controller, battery and DC to AC converter. Overall the machine has works well butt need improvement in terms of manueverability
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Judul: Rancang bangun alat pengering rumput laut dengan sistem solar dryer dan heater otomatis berbasis mikrokontroler
Abstrak: One of the efforts to improve the quality of seaweed one of the important marine resources is by drying system that aims to reduce the moisture content. In general, the drying process is carried out in outdoor using a tarp to prevent from sand contaminated . The purpose of this research is to produce seaweed drying instrument with automatic solar dryer and heater system based on microcontroller and to analyze drying seaweed for its level of dried quality. The steps of research are : the design of instrument space, electronic systems, and software design, field test and dried seaweed quality analysis. Electronic system consisting of microcontroller ATmega 32 as the main controller, module DS 1307 as a marker of time, Module SHT 11 as temperature and humidity, data acquisitiq LCD 16x2 as display data temperature, humidity and time recording, SD card for data storage. Field test results obtained temperature range at dryer room is about 32.7 – 64.0 oC and the humidity ranges from 21-85.9% whereas the environmental temperature range about 29.1 – 46.9 oC and humidity range about 37.1-75.6%. The rate of weight loss inside instruments about 0.41-18.33 gr/min whereas conventional drying about 0-15.83 gr/min. Analysis of quality test results for dried seaweed in the dryer show moisture content of gray levels at 18%, 45.61%, fat show the water content 0.59%, 9.20%, protein and carbohydrate levels 26.28%, whereas in conventional drying have at 18% moisture content, ash content 48.90% 0.59%, fats, proteins and carbohydrates, 8.53%, 23.46%, respectively
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), ATmega microcontroller 32, solar dryer, water content, seaweeds

Judul: Approximation of the Median of Poisson Distribution Using the Relation of Poisson-Gamma Distribution
Abstrak: A major drawback of median is that median cannot usually be defined in closed form, even in the cases where their distribution functions are known. This study gives an approximation of the closed form for the median of the Poisson distribution by using the relation of Poisson-Gamma distribution. The approximation uses elementary techniques based on the monotonicity of certain sequences involving tail probabilities of the Poisson distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Furthermore, a closed form expression for the mean absolute deviation 􀜧|􀜰􀰒 􀵆 􀜯􀝁􀝀􁈺􀜰􀰒􁈻| is also studied. The median is relevant because of the fact that it minimizes the mean absolute deviation of a Poisson random variable (􀜰􀰒􁈻 by considering median as central tendency.
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