Bioenergy from Agro-industry Waste
Beside processing the agriculturual product that had high added value, the agro-industry also created added value for the waste generated by processing it into bio-energy. “Based on the research result of the plywood industry producing the plywood of 200 thousands cubic meters per year can produce 32 percents of solid waste. If the majority of this waste are converted into alternative energy, the income that can be scooped worth of Rp 131,038 billion per month,” said Head of Department of Agricultural Industrial Technology, the Faculty of Agricultural Technology, IPB, Prof. Dr. Nastiti Siswi Indrasti while giving a speech in the event of 2nd International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Agroindustry (ICAIA), Monday (16/9) at IPB International Convention Center (IICC).
Such as the plywood industry, the research result of the Department of Agricultural Industrial Technology of IPB showed that the sugarcane industry producing the sugar around 480 tons per hour could produce the waste of 150 tons per hour which could be changed into 19,250 Kwh. “The recent research is also like this. Every ton of waste cassava starch industry can be changed into 4,100 liters of biogas. The three industries are just an example that the agro-industry waste can be used to produce the bio-energry. This is in line with the government policy in the development of renewable energy to overcome the energy crisis,” asserted Prof.Nastiti.
Vice-Rector for Research and Collaboration of IPB, Prof.Dr.Anas Miftah Fauzi, hoped that it could be formulated various breakthroughs related to three issues i.e. the innovation based on agro-industry, the respond of climate change based on agro-industry and sustainable agribusiness (everlasting). “We hope in this meeting we can share information, knowledge and formulating the new breakthrough about the three issues,” said Prof.Anas.
In this international meeting, Prof.Anas conveyed the appreciation to the Department of Agricultural Industrial Technology, the Faculty of Agricultural Technology, IPB which was internationally accredited as well as launching the Double Degree Program between the Master of Science in Agroindustrial Technology, IPB with the Master of Applied Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Adelaide Australia. The Department of Agricultural Industrial Technology, the Faculty of Agricultural Technology, IPB obtained the international accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), United States of America. The activity which are the part of the series of this 50 Anniversary presented the resource persons from various countries amongst all United States of America, Australia, Indonesia, and Japan. (ris)
