Analisis Kadar Zat Menguap dan Kadar Karbon Terikat Pada Briket Eceng Gondok – Sekam Padi

Authors

  • Tauny Akbari

Keywords:

Briquette, water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes), rice husk, volatile matter content, fixed carbon content

Abstract

Water hyacinths are aquatic weeds that have negative impacts of social, economical, and environmental.
Water hyacinth has not been widely used as a renewable energy. Aim of this research is to analyze volatile
matter content and fixed carbon content at renewable energy sources in the form of water hyacinth – rice
husk briquette. The research design is experiment using Factorial Complete Randomized Design (3x3) with
two factors; the charcoal combinations of rice husk : water hyacinth and the percentage of tapioca binder.
This experiment is repeated 3 times, so there are 27 treatments. The calculation of volatile matter content
using ASTMD-3175 standard and the calculation of fixed carbon content using ASTMD-3172 standard. The
results show that the lowest volatile matter content (50.5%) and the highest fixed carbon content (20.3%) are
owned by briquette A1P3 (combination of rice husk : water hyacinth 1:1 and the percentage of tapioca
binder 5%). That briquette is not appropriate with the standards of charcoal briquette (SNI 01-6235-2000)

Published

2017-06-06

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