Judul: Persepsi peternak tentang inovasi teknologi biogas hasil fermentasi kotoran sapi (kasus kelompok peternak sapi perah "Maju Terus" kelurahan Kebon Pedes, Bogor)
Abstrak: The aim of this research were : (1) to know the characteristic of the cattle farmer at Kebon Pedes Village, (2) to know the communication activities of the cattle farmers, (3) to know the perception of the cattle farmers and decision to adopt the biogas technology innovation, (4) to analyze the correlation between the perception and communication.
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Judul: Dampak ekonomi sosial dan Lingkungan pemanfaatan limbah ternak sapi perah di Kampung Areng Desa Cibodas Kecamatan Lembang Kabupaten Bandung Barat
Abstrak: Indonesia has great beef cattle population potentially cause pollution from livestock waste. Utilization of livestock waste into biogas as an alternative energy is a solution. This study analyzed the perception of the respondents about the use of livestock waste into biogas, analyzed the factors that influence the decision of breeders in use livestock waste into biogas, to analyze the changes of energy consumption before and after the use of biogas and energy consumption cost difference between the farmers types I and II, and analyzed the impact of social and environment from the use livestock waste into biogas. The research results show that the majority of respondents have that utilization of livestock waste into biogas have direct and indirect benefit for breeders and community around location. Significant factors that influence th breeders decision to use biogas is long of cattle business, the number of livestock, the level of education , and the participation of the group of cattle. The results showed that the rate of dairy cattle business income type I is higher than type II with the the total value income of Rp 200.970 /month . The difference in the cost of energy consumption between the two types of cattle business Rp 22.050. The social and environment impact from the utilization of livestock waste into biogas are improve cultural cooperation communities, improve the performance of the group of cattle, changes in environmental conditions around the cage cleaner, and reduced air pollution due to a heap of livestock waste.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University, the impact of economicsocial and environment, logistic regression, livestock waste, biogas

Judul: Thermal Characteristics and Dynamics of Tropical Cyclone over Western North Pacific Ocean: A Case Study of Typhoon Songda (Chedeng) 2011
Abstrak: The frequent occasion of Tropical Cyclone (TC) over Western North Pacific (WNP) Ocean lies from 10˚N to 26˚N and 121˚E to 170˚E. Sources of TC development come from warm ocean temperature where latent heat is released during condensation processes and subsequently concentrated in the boundary layer. Relative humidity at 850-700 hPa is responsible to produce the most intense storm. Meanwhile, weak vertical wind shear between 850-200 hPa is one of the dynamical factors that lead to the development of TC. Pressure level of 850-200 hPa is chosen to minimize the thermodynamic effect in the lower troposphere. Typhoon Songda (Chedeng in the Philippines) or TSC lasted from May 18th to 30th, 2011 and strengthened into powerful Super Typhoon stage between May 24th and 27th. Long curving track and the exhibition of all sequences of TC life cycle, TSC is then considered as an ideal case of TC. The objective of the study with case of TSC is to investigate the role of thermal characteristics and dynamics on TC intensity. The research is carried out by using Advanced Research of Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF ARW model) version 3.3. Two domains are employed in the model. The first domain situate from 02˚N to 40˚N and 118˚E to 149˚E and cover spatial resolution () of 33.1 km. The second domain situate from 09˚N to 27˚N and 119˚E to 132˚E with of 11 km. Timestep of the model () is 120 seconds. The model is supported by the following physical parameterization, i.e., Yonsei University Scheme (YSU) in the boundary layer, Kain-Fritsch scheme (KF) in the cumulus, and WRF Single-Moment 3-class scheme in the microphysics. Initial meteorological condition prior to the formation of the cyclone is generated using WRF ARW standard-release model. Sensitivity of the model output is obtained from a selected single-parameter change scenarios, namely, 10 % to 20 % decrease and increase of wind shear initial data at 850-200 hPa, and by 10 % to 20 % decrease of relative humidity initial data at 850-700 hPa. The result showed that the negative correlations between wind shear and intensity are found in wind shear scenarios. Wind shears of 10 ms-1 which lead to strengthening of the wind intensity in the early period of Typhoon development are found in wind shear scenarios. The effect of wind shear changes on wind intensity is statistically significant in the 20 % wind shear scenarios. During mature stage, weak wind intensity occurred when wind shear increase as given in the WRF standard-release and the 20 % decreasing scenario. Different situation is found in the 20 % increasing scenario where wind shear tend to weak and lead to strong wind intensity at this stage. Meanwhile, the reduction of moisture supply at 850-700 hPa resulting from 20 % decreasing relative humidity play a major role in the weakening of wind intensity and reduces mechanical energy of the cycle process as much as 300 J kg-1.
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