Judul: Produksi Plastik Komposit dari Pencampuran Tapioka dan Onggok Termoplastis dengan HDPE.
Abstrak: Plastic is one of synthetic polymer which globally applicated because of its advantages. However, many problems emerged when plastic was discarded which cause serious environmental pollution because it can not be degraded, while its utilization increases year to year. Development of starch-based biodegradable plastic can be one alternative to solve this problem and expected to increase the added value of local agricultural products. This research aims are to study the production of composite biodegradable plastic using blending method of natural (tapioca and cassava bagasse) and synthetic (HDPE) polymers; and to analyze mechanical, thermal, and biodegradability characteristics of the composite plastic. The research was preceed with preparation and characterization of tapioca and cassava bagasse as composite plastic materials. It was followed with preparation of thermoplastic starch by adding plasticizers. Water is added up to 25% concentration of material total mass, while glycerol is added in 15% and 20% concentration. Compatibilized HDPE was made by adding 0,1% of dicumyl peroxyde and 1% of maleic anhydride in HDPE resin. The last step is processing composite plastic using blending method of thermoplastics starch and compt.HDPE in 20% and 80% ratio. Composite plastic then evaluated for its mechanical, thermal, and biodegradability characteristics. Based on quality requirement, tapioca has good quality appropriate with SNI 01-3451-1994. Result of characterization showed that cassava bagasse has high fiber content up to 33,80%. Based on the results of mechanical properties testing, it is known that compt.HDPE-tapioca with the addition of 15% glycerol has a tensile strength close to HDPE resins, as well as the elongations value. Thermal properties testing showed that the addition of 20% natural polymers in blending process gave insignificant influence. The results of biodegradability examination showed that composite plastics are capable to be degraded by microorganism. In qualitative examination, it can be seen from the growth of the fungi in some parts of the sample surface. In quantitative examination using enzymes, percentation of compt.HDPE-cassava bagasse weight loss was larger than compt.HDPE-tapioca. This is influenced by the use of α-amylase and cellulase in compt.HDPE-cassava bagasse so that the total glucose results higher, which means more degradable.
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Judul: Produksi Plastik Komposit dari Campuran Tapioka-Onggok Termoplastis dengan Compatibilized Polietilen
Abstrak: One of alternative solution for plastic disposal problem is by developing biodegradable plastic. The typical drawbacks of starch-based plastic is inferior of its physico-mechanical properties. In order to improve the physico-mechanical properties and compatibility of blending system, tapioca-casava bagasse was modified into thermoplastic tapioca-casava bagasse blends while polyethylene was compatibilized by addition maleic anhydride. The aim of this research was to produce composite plastic from thermoplastic tapioca-casava bagasse blends and compatibilized polyethylene (compt-HDPE, compt-LDPE and compt-LLDPE). This research investigated the effect of fiber content in formulating the tapioca-casava bagasse blends, as 5, 10, 15 and 20%; glycerol (as plasticizer) concentration, as 30, 35 and 40% to the mechanical, thermal, biodegradability and surface morphological properties of composite plastics. The result showed that fiber contents in blends tapioca-casava bagasse up to 15% can improve physico-mechanical properties (tensile stress at yield, tensile stress at break and thermal properties) but addition of glycerol more than 30% can decrease mechanical composite plastic properties especially for HDPE. Introduction of thermoplastic tapioca-casava bagasse in polyethylene composite plastic generally can decrease physico-mechanical properties plastic. Synthetic polymer that suitable with thermoplastic blends tapioca-casava bagasse was compt-HDPE. The best result gained from 40% thermoplastic blends with HDPE, 15% of fiber and 30% of glycerol contents. Biodegradability test showed that composite plastic can be degraded, but only natural component such as starch and fiber was degraded.
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Judul: Infeksi Cacing Jantung Dirofilaria Immitis, Railliet & Henry, 1911 Pada Anjing
Abstrak: Cacing Dirofilaria immitis dewasa yang tinggal dalm ventrikel kanan jantung anjing, sering kali menimbulkan gejala klinis yang cukup berat. Cacing Tersebut menghasilkan mikrofilaria yang selanjutnya berkembang menjadi larva infektif dalam saluran malphigi induk semang entara, yaitu nyamuk dari genus Culex, Aedes dan Anopheles.
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