Judul: Design and Performance of Trash Gathering-conveying Unit of Sugarcane Trash Chopping Machine
Abstrak: A machine for gathering and chopping the piles of sugarcane trash on the field after harvesting is being designed. As a part of the machine, a gathering-conveying unit was designed. Important data including condition and characteristics of leaves piles were collected and used for designing the unit. The average bulk density of trash on the field was 7.71 kg/m3, the average pressure to compress the piles from 40 cm to 30 cm thickness was 50.65 N/m2, and the pressure to compress the trash from 27 cm to 8 cm thickness was 1166.60 N/m2. The unit was consisted of a gathering reel, a pair of conveyors, cover-frame and power transmission components. The prototype was tested to measure its working performance and its power requirement of each component. Raking level was varied into 6 levels (raking index: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6), and conveying level was varied into 3 levels (conveying index: 1, 1.14 and 1.20) for the experiment. Sugarcane trash having 8 kg/m3 Keywords: sugarcane trash, gathering reel, conveyors, power, performance. in bulk density and 40 cm in height was used and feed to the unit at feeding velocity of 0.3 m/s, for the experiments. The experimental result showed that the gathering reel and the conveyors could work properly. The working capacity of the unit was 1964.76-2101.25 kg/hour. Average rotating power of the reel was 18 Watt, and average rotating power of the conveyor was 98 Watt. After processing 8 kg trash, there was around 1.5-3.7% of trash trapped on the reel, and around 3.13-9.20% of trash trapped on the conveyor.
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Judul: Design of gathering-conveying unit of mobile sugar cane trash chopping machine
Abstrak: A machine for gathering and chopping the piles of sugarcane trash on the field after harvesting is being designed. As a part of the machine, a gathering-conveying unit was designed. Important data including condition and characteristics of trash were collected and used for designing the unit. The average bulk density of trash on the field was 7.7 kg/m3, the average pressure to compress the trash from 40 cm to 30 cm thickness was 50.65 N/m2, and the pressure to compress the trash from 27 cm to 8 cm thickness was 1166.60 N/m2. The unit was designed to be operated at 0.3 m/s forward speed, and having 60 cm working width. The unit was consisted of: a gathering reel, a pair of conveyors, cover-frame and power transmission components. Size and operational speed of moving components were determined by analyzing mass flow rate of the trash, and operating power of the components. The gathering reel was 100 cm in diameter and having 4 series of gathering fingers for drawing and feeding the trash into the conveyors. A pair of chain-conveyors equipped with L-shaped steel bars was set face to face on lower side and upper side for conveying and feeding the leaves to the chopping unit. The stationary test showed that the gathering reel and the conveyors could work properly. The average rotational speed of the conveyor shaft and the gathering reel were 34.03 rpm and 9.97 rpm, respectively. The working capacity of the unit was 400-500 kg/hour.
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Judul: Daya Tahan IgY Spesifik Terhadap Influenza dan COVID-19 dalam Balsam Bibir
Abstrak: Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 virus are respiratory infections and require antiviral medications due to severe consequences. Utilization of specific immunoglobulin Y (IgY) inserted in personal care products were developed. The aim of this study was to evaluate durability of specific IgY against influenza and COVID-19 in lipbalm. The concentration of IgY used in this research was 0.1% and 0.25%. Three groups were observed: control (C) lipbalm without IgY, treatment 1 (T1) lipbalm with 0.1% IgY and treatment 2 (T2) lipbalm with 0.25% IgY. Organoleptic tests were conducted and recorded which includes the sense of smell, colour and consistency for six weeks. The presence of IgY in lipbalm was evaluated using enzyme-linked-immunosorbent-assay (ELISA) and neutralizationassay. There were some noticeable changes of organoleptic that can be observed such as colour darkened and texture hardened of the lipbalm. Most of the assays gave negative results in T1 and T2, whilst only few of them were doubtful. Our result indicated that IgY concentration of 0.1% or 0.25% in lipbalm were not optimal. However, the negative result might be due to the unavailability of IgY in the product to be dissolved in deionized water since we used beeswax as lipbalm component.
Keyword: Covid-19, egg yolk immunoglobulin Y, lipbalm, influenza