Judul: Biogas as Fermentation Product of Baggase Hydrolysate Using Consortium Thermopilic Bacteria of Manure.
Abstrak: Growth of society and development of technology cause the world especially Indonesia require energy very much. Over exploitation of energy from unrenewable resource cause environmental damage and crisis of energy in the world. The purpose of this research was to produce biogas using baggase as substrate by thermophilic bacteria consortium of manure with fermentation. This research was begun by seed sludge preparation with heating 102 °C. A number of 75 ml of medium were mixed by substrate of glucose and baggase hydrolysate with different glucose concentration, that is 0.5, 1.5, and 2.5 g/L then were shaked for five days in normal temperature. The product of biogas was analyzed by gas chromatography with temperature of injector, detector, and column were 150, 250, dan 80 ºC. The result of this research shows the growing of bacteria was in accordance with decreasing of sugar concentration implying that the bacteria consume sugar to produce biogas. A mount of biogas produced in glucose fermentation 0.5 g/L, 1.5 g/L, and 2.5 g/L were 2.5, 13, and 38 ml respectively in the other hand baggase fermentation 0.5 g/L, 1.5 g/L, and 2.5 g/L were 0, 13, and 2 ml respectively. glucose fermentation produced hydrogen 0,6 % in the other hand baggase fermentation 0,9 %. So that baggase can produce biogas as alternative energy resource by using thermophilic bacteria of manure.
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Judul: Pembuatan Biogas Dari Sampah Buah-Buahan Melalui Fermentasi Aerobik Dan Anaerobik
Abstrak: Solid wastes and energy crisis are created by high growing rate of people. An alternative solving for both problems is biogas technology. Municipal waste can be proceed into biogas and fertilizer by biogas technology. In general, the process of conventional biogas technology has long time about 40 days (in tropical countries) and 100 days (in subtropical countries). The main goal of the research was to shorten the retention time of biogas production by combining its aerobic and anaerobic processes with optimized environmental condition (temperature) and substrate composition (C:N ratio) in anaerobic phase. Hydrolysis and acidogenesis were set in aerobic phase, while asetogenesis was set in anaerobic phase. Fruits waste were set into pre-treatment, minimized waste size between 1-2 cm2 and water addition (1: 1). The mixed ingredients was added by E~ microorganism culture and took into digester to start aerobic process. After 5 days, the process was stopped then substrate took to anaerobic digester to produced biogas (methano~enesis). Anaerobic process was set at different temperatures (30,35 and 40 C) and C:N ratios (20,25 and 30). The beginning of water content and C:N ratio of substrate were 86,24 % and 70,32: 1. Respectively, in aerobic process substrate was degraded by microorganism into simple compound. This process can be analyzed by C:N ratio change of total solid (TS), total volatile solid (TVS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), volatile fatty acid (VF A) and acidity degree (pH). Methanogenesis (anaerobic process) was monitored by the volume of biogas produced and analyzed COD, VF A and pH. The optimum of production rate and volume ofbiogas produced was achieved by treatment in 35°C temperature and 30: 1 C:N ratio, which biogas has produced 26,5 ml in the ftrst day and 42,5 ml biogas in the end of biogas production with the highest production rate was 9,6 mVday. It showed that activity of methanogenic microbe was optimum in that treatment condition.
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Judul: Warna bulu kucing ras Persia : variasi pola warna dan pewarisannya
Abstrak: Kucing Persia merupakan kucing ras yang paling umum dijumpai di Indonesia. Kucing Persia memiliki bulu yang panjang dengan variasi warna bulu yang sangat beragam. Perkawinan yang lebih terarah sangat perlu dilakukan untuk meningkatkan kualitas genetik warna dan pola warna bulu kucing. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari variasi warna dan pola warna bulu kucing Persia yang terdapat di Indonesia, yang dilakukan di kantor pusat Cat Fancy Indonesia mulai bulan Oktober 2000 sampai Januari 2001. Data yang digunakan merupakan data pedigree kucing Persia yang tercatat di Cat Fancy Indonesia dari tahun 1997 sampai Oktober 2001 yang terdiri dari 187 jantan dan 258 betina, selain itu juga dilakukan pengamatan langsung kepada tiga penyayang dan breeder kucing yang ada di Bandung. Secara umum tercatat 104 penyayang dan breeder kucing ras di Indonesia, 74,04% terdapat di Jawa Barat dan sisanya (25%) terdapat di daerah Jakarta. Jumlah kucing Persia yang lahir di Indonesia adalah 387 kucing (87,16%), yang terdiri dari 163 (42,12%) jantan dan 224 (57,88%) betina. Jumlah kucing Persia yang diimpor ke Indonesia adalah sebanyak 57 (12,845%) yang terdiri dari 23 (40,35%) jantan dan 34 (59,65%) betina. Jumlah kucing Persia yang terdapat di Jawa Barat (84,14%) lebih banyak dibanding jumlah kucing Persia yang ada di Jakarta (14,86%). Secara umum warna bulu cream (9,01%) dan pola warna solid (34,01%) memiliki persentase tertinggi. Warna cream merupakan warna dilusi dari warna merah (red) yang dapat dihasilkan dari berbagai macam kombinasi warna bulu yang dimiliki tetua sebelumnya, sebagai contoh dari perkawinan tetua yang memiliki warna bulu cream dengan red smoke. Perkawinan antara tetua yang memiliki warna dan pola warna bulu yang tidak murni dapat menghasilkan turunan yang memiliki warna dan pola warna bulu yang bervariasi.
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