Uji Kehalusan Bahan dan Konsentrasi Perekat Briket Biomassa Kulit Durian terhadap Karakteristik Mutu Briket

Abstract

Hasnul JEIN: “The Effect of Materials Size and Adhesive Concentration on The Quality of Durian Skin Briquette”, supervised by AINUN ROHANAH and TAUFIK RIZALDI. Bio-Carbon Briquette is one of the fuels derived from biomass. Biomass used in this research was the durian skin. The aim of this research was to utilize waste biomass of durian skin as an alternative fuel briquettes in accordance to standard quality. A factorial completely randomized design was used with 2 factors: i.e. material size (20, 30 and 40 mesh) and concentration of adhesive (20, 30, 40%). Parameters observed were calorific value, water content, ash content and density. The results showed that the material size had highly significantly affected the calorific value, ash content, density and had no effect on the water content. The concentration of adhesive had highly significantly affected the calorific value, ash content and had no effect on the water content and density. The interaction of treatment had no effect on calorific value, water content, ash content and had highly significantly affected the density. The results showed the water content, ash content and density of the briquettes did not meet the standard quality of Indonesia, Japan, America and Britain. The calorific value of briquettes met the standard quality of Japan and America.