Judul: Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon on Petroleum – Polluted Soil by A10 and D8 Isolates.
Abstrak: Petroleum pollution could come from spilled oil during drilling, production, refining, and transportation activities. One way to overcome petroleum pollution is by bioremediation method. Bioremediation is a natural environment recovery that utilize microorganism activity to degrade hazardous organic compounds to other compounds like carbondioxide, water, biomass, and side products that are simpler than the original compounds. This research used exogenous bacteria isolates of A10 and D8 as subjects of the process. These isolates applied on 5% (w/w) crude oil contaminated soil. Crude oil hydrocarbon residue was measured using gravimetric method. During five weeks, D8 isolate was able to decrease crude oil contaminant up to 92.30% and A10 isolate up to 60.23%. The gas chromatography-mass spectrophotometry analysis showed that A10 and D8 isolates degraded crude oil by changing the oil compounds become shorter chains.
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Judul: Perombakan Hidrokarbon Dalam Tanah Terkontaminasi Minyak Berat, Minyak Ringan dan Oli Bekas oleh Bacillus sp.
Abstrak: Oil is the main source of energy for humans activities such as industries and transportations. The oil exploration activities have potential to pollute the environment (i.e.soil, water, and air). The sludge released bysuch activities can be degraded by bacteria into non-harmful compounds. Biodegradation process is done to achieve the concentration of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon (TPH) in the contaminated soil less than 1%. The result showed that the bacteria of Bacillus sp. ICBB 7859, ICBB 9461, ICBB 5071 were able to degrade the concentration of TPH of heavy oil from 9.5082% to 0.4673%, 10.7747% to 0.3607% and 9.2442% to 0.6713%, respectively. The three isolates of bacteria needed nine weeks to complete the process. For light oil, Bacillus sp. ICBB 7859 was able to decrease the TPH from 2.9407% to 0.4378%, ICBB 9461 from 3.1433% to 0.4702%, and ICBB 5071 from 3.0742% to 0.5991% respectively, within four weeks. For iv lubricant wastes, Bacillus sp. ICBB 7859 was able to decrease the TPH of lubricant wastes from 7.6949% to 0.9067, ICBB 9461 from 7.4556% to 0.9222%, and ICBB 5071 from 7.3459% to 0.6796% respectively. The three isolates of bacteria completed the degradation process in different time. Bacillus sp. ICBB 7859 and ICBB 9461 degraded lubricant wastes within six weeks, and Bacillus sp. ICBB 5071 degraded the lubricant wastes within five weeks to reach the TPH concentration of less than 1%.
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Judul: Karakteristik Anatomi Skelet Kepala Buaya senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii).
Abstrak: Buaya sepit atau senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii) merupakan jenis buaya asli Indonesia yang berhabitat di sungai-sungai Sumatera, Kalimantan, dan juga pedalaman Sulawesi. Salah satu ciri khas buaya senyulong adalah bentuk moncong yang runcing dan sempit, namun hingga saat ini informasi mengenai struktur skelet kepala buaya senyulong sangat terbatas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari karakteristik anatomi skelet kepala buaya senyulong yang dikatikan dengan fungsi dan perilakunya. Penelitian dilakukan secara eksploratif dengan melakukan pengamatan, pencatatan, dan pengambilan gambar dari skelet kepala buaya senyulong. Skelet kepala berukuran panjang 70 cm, lebar 29 cm, dan tingggi 17 cm dengan permukaan kasar pada os nasale, os frontale, os maxilla, os mandibula, os lacrimale, os jugale. Jumlah gigi pada buaya ini sebanyak 78 buah, terdiri dari 4 buah gigi premaxila, 16 buah gigi maxila, dan 19 buah gigi mandibula. Pada regio orbitalis ditemukan dua pasang fenestrae temporales yang berkembang baik. Fenestra supratemporale merupakan lubang oval yang membentang di sepanjang os parietale. Fenestra infratemporale berbentuk segitiga dan dibatasi oleh os squamosum, os postorbitale, os jugulare, dan os quadratum. Os mandibula hewan ini mempunyai symphysis mandibularis yang panjang yaitu garis yang melintang di corpus mandibulae. Secara fungsional ukuran symphysis mandibularis berkaitan dengan adaptasi hewan terhadap diet makan.
Keyword: kepala, moncong, Tomistoma schlegelii