Judul: Pengaruh Jumlah Bahan Pretanning dan Minyak Biji Karet (Hevea brasiliensis) Terhadap Mutu Kulit Samoa. Di
Abstrak: Animal hides or skins are the most valuable by product of the meat industry. Most of those hides are converted into leather by leather tanning process. Chrome based tanning is the most popular tanning process. At the chrome based tanning process, a lot of amount chrome are throw away into the environment that make a significant effect to the biological and ecological environment damaged. Due to concerns over the use and disposal of chromed tanned leather, the leather industry is now facing increasing scrutiny over its use of chrome as tanning agent. The use of non-chrome tannages has gradually become pre-eminent to producing leather, particularly in the European automotive leather markets. Chamois leather is one of leather product. It is produced from animal hides/skins by oil tanning process, usually with fish oil. High price and odour problems to the chamois leather that produced using fish oil motivate to do some research to solve that problems. Rubber seed oil is an oil that predicted can substitute fish oil. Pretanning process is needed to increase the oil penetration and protects the pelt from putrefying during oxidation periods (Khrisnan et al., 2005). Relugan GT 50 is the agent that used on this research. Relugan GT 50 is an aldehyde tanning agent, produced by BASF. This research was aimed to find out the effects of Relugan GT 50 concentration (offer) and rubber seeds (Hevea brasiliensis) oil to the chamois leather’s quality. Beside that, this research is also aimed to decide the best combination of the factors to produce chamois leather also to know the chamois leather characteristics. The preliminary research was carried out by analyzing the rubber seed’s kernel and eggshell as well as physico-chemical properties of the rubber seed oil. The main research was done by tanning the skin with Relugan GT 50 in concentrations of 1.5, 3.0 and 4.5% followed by rubber seed oil concentrations of 10, 20, and 30%. The experimental design used was completely randomize factorial design. The preliminary research shows that rubber seed’s kernel was 49% and rubber seed’s eggshell was 51%. The rubber seed’s oil characterstics were density of 0.94 (g/cm3), viscosity of 48,4 centistokes, colour of 2713 PtCo units, inodine value 113 g iod/ 100 g, peroxide value of 24 miliequivalent/1000 gram oil, acid value of 15 mg KOH/g oil and FFA content of 5.8%. The research shows that Relugan GT 50 concentration significantly affected shrinkage temperature (Ts) and pH; rubber seed oil concentration significantly affect the organoleptic properties of the leather. The optimum conditions for the tanning were Relugan GT of 3.0% concentration and 10% rubber seeds oil. The physical properties of the leather were shrinkage temperature of 75oC, thickness of 0.92 mm, tensile strength of 21.50 N/mm2, elongation at break of 144%, tear strength of 55.77 N/mm, water absorption of 266% (2 hours) and 299% (24 hours). The chemical properties were oil content of 2.5%, ash content of 1.2% and pH of 8. The organoleptic properties were softness of 7–8, colour of 8-9, and odour of 8-9.
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Judul: Pengaruh penggunaan bahan pengokdidasi terhadap mutu kulit samoa pada penyamakan  kulit menggunakan minyak biji karet
Abstrak: Leather tanning using oil as the tanning agent has disadvantages, such as the time of oxidation which is takes a long time in about 9 days. Using sodium percarbonate as oxidizing agent in the tanning process, known to shorten the time into two days, eventhough, the high cost of sodium percarbonate was being obstacle in its use. Other oxidizing agents such as hydrogen peroxide and sodium hypochlorite may have the same function with sodium percarbonate, i.e. acceleration of the oxidation process. The objectives of this research were to investigate the influence of the oxidizing agents and their concentrations on the quality of chamois leather and to determine the best combination of type and concentration of oxidizing agents in the production process of chamois leather. The main research consisted of leather tanning using rubber seed oil, oxidation in drum with three types and concentrations of the oxidizing agents, measurements of physical, chemical and organoleptic properties of chamois leather. The results showed that the three types of the oxidizing agent could be used to accelerate the oxidation process in the manufacture of chamois leather. The type of oxidizing agent gave significant effect on shrinkage temperature, ash content, colour and odour of leather, while the oxidizing agent concentration significantly affected the colour and odour of chamois leather. The treatment of experiment selected based on the quality of leather was sodium hypochlorite with the concentration of 2%. Tanning by using this treatment produced chamois leather with the properties as follows: shrinkage temperature of 75.2oC, tensile strength of 30.5 N/mm2, elongation at break of 134.3%, tear strength of 86.2 N/mm, water absorption of 265% (2 hours) and 286% (24 hours), pH 6.56, oil content of 8.71%, ash content of 1.12%, softness of 8-9, colour of 7-8 and odour
Keyword: Hydraulic pressing, Oxidizing agent, Sanitizer

Judul: Closed Knight’s Tour pada Papan Catur Berbentuk Persegi Panjang dengan Ukuran Maksimal 8 × 8
Abstrak: Closed Knight’s Tour merupakan langkah kuda yang mengunjungi setiap kotak pada papan catur tepat satu kali dengan langkah kuda berawal dan berakhir pada kotak yang sama. Graf yang terbentuk dari closed knight’s tour dinotasikan sebagai graf G(m,n), dengan m adalah banyaknya baris dan n adalah banyaknya kolom. Graf tersebut memuat Hamiltonian cycle. Sebuah graf terhubung G adalah graf bipartite jika dan hanya jika graf tersebut tidak memiliki cycle dengan panjang ganjil. Papan catur yang memenuhi syarat cukup untuk memiliki closed knight’s tour adalah papan catur berukuran 5 × 6, 5 × 8, 6 × 6, 6 × 7, 6 × 8, 7 × 8, dan 8 × 8.
Keyword: bipartite, closed knight’s tour, hamiltonian cycle, knight’s tour, teori graf