Judul: Penggunaan Gas HHO dan Uji Kinerjanya pada Traktor Pertanian
Abstrak: There were many efforts which can be done to reduce fossil fuel consumption. There are bioethanol, biodiesel, and enriched fuel that can be used to reduce fossil fuel consumption. This research was constituted to implement HHO gas on diesel fuel mixed for hand tractor. This research was aimed to study the performance of drawbar pull, fuel consumption and emission of tractor added with HHO gas in fuel system. Conventional HHO generator and resonance HHO generator were used to generate HHO gas HHO gas is define a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen as a result of were electrolysis, this gas also known as Brown gas. Both of them used KOH as catalyst. The concentration of catalyst used was 50gr/l, 25gr/l, 10gr/l. the results showed that drawbar pull performance increased after HHO gas added to fuel system. The drawbar pull increased up to 14.14% on concrete path and 6.39% on soil path. Fuel consumption and emission decreased after HHO gas added to fuel system.The fuel consumption decreased down to 19.21% on concrete path and 16.69% on soil path. The emission (carbon monoxide) decreased down to 68.17%.
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Judul: Kajian Kinerja Tarik Traktor Tangan dengan Menggunakan Bahan Bakar Biodiesel Minyak Sawit
Abstrak: This study discusses the tractive performance of hand tractor (drawbar pull, drawbar power, and cultivated field capacity using mouldboard plough) fueled with biodiesel from palm oil and analysed the economics of biodiesel implementation as fuel. The tests were performed on Huanghai DF-12L. In this study, palm oil biodiesel are tested as diesel fuels in neat (B100) and blended forms with diesel fuels commercial (B20, B40, B60, B80); the performance of hand tractor using biodiesel in neat and blended forms compared with using diesel fuels commercial. In order to determine the traction performance characteristic, hand tractor operated at constant engine speed mode 2000 rpm (the full load condition of the engine). Hand tractor loaded by Yanmar YM330T (four wheel tractor) that operated at five levels engine speed mode that is 1200 – 2000 rpm with 200 rpm increments. The tractive tests were performed on grass track and concrete track, whereas cultivation performed in dry land. The results indicated that drawbar pull and drawbar power of hand tractor on grass track and concrete track were uniformed (especially on grass track); hand tractor fueled with B40 and B100 showed increase trend compared to diesel fuels commercial, whereas other fuels tested showed decreased trend. Otherwise the cultivated field capacity of hand tractor fueled biodiesel from palm oil closely followed those of fueled with diesel fuels commercial. Based on this study, the implementation of biodiesel from palm oil either neat or blended forms are suitable as alternative diesel fuel for hand tractor although more expensive compared to diesel fuels commercial.
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Judul: Psittacosis Sebagai Zoonosis Penting Yang Berasal Dari Burung
Abstrak: Psittacosis atau ornithosis adalah penyakit menular dari burung kepada manusia. Agens penyebab psittacosis termasuk ke dalam virus psittacosis-lymphogranuloma venereum group yang disebut Chlamydia psittaci. C. psittaci hanya dapat berkembang biak di dalam jaringan hidup tetapi peka terhadap antibiotik. Penyebaran penyakit ini sangat luas, terdapat hampir di seluruh dunia. Di Indonesia penyakit ini belum pernah di diagnosa, tetapi mengingat terdapat demikian banyaknya jenis burung maka diperkirakan psittacosis ini sudah ada. Kasus pada manusia pertamakali ditemukan oleh Ritter pada tahun 1879, di Eropa. Waktu itu dikenal sebagai pneumotyphus. Chlamydia psittaci tidak hanya sebagai penyebab infeksi pada burung, juga bisa menyebabkan infeksi pada mamalia diantaranya sapi, kerbau, kambing, domba, babi dan kucing. Pada kucing dikenal sebagai feline pneumonitis. Pada domba atau kambing mengakibatkan enzootic abortion. Pada burung, kalkun merupakan unggas paling rentan diikuti oleh burung psittacine dan burung lain di luar famili psittacidae. Virulensinyapun berbeda-beda. Yang berasal dari kalkun bervirulensi tinggi, sedangkan yang berasal dari burung merpati bisa bervirulensi tinggi bisa juga bervirulensi rendah. Penularan terjadi melalui kontak langsung maupun ti- dak langsung. Penularan melalui telur tidak terjadi. Umumnya penyakit ini memperlihatkan gejala klinis berupa deman, lesu, lemah, anorexia, kurus, diarrhea ber- warna kekuningan, discharge dari mata dan hidung, conjunc- tivitis. Gejala khas pada kalkun adalah istirahat dengan sternum sebagai dasarnya, karena adanya tekanan dari bagian perut yang sakit. Sedangkan pada manusia memperlihatkan adanya demam, kadang-kadang merasa dingin, lesu, sakit kepala yang hebat, sakit pada bagian belakang badan dan photophobia…dst
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