News and Activities – CREATA-LRITM

CREATA-LRITM News and Activities

NEWS AND ACTIVITIES OF CREATA

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SPRAYERS FOR FOOD PRODUCTION AND AGRICULTURE

Sprayer tools and machines are important tools to support food and agricultural production, especially in controlling plant pests and diseases. The need for machine tools sprayer is increasing so that it triggers the development of machine tools sprayer industry. Testing the quality of machine tools sprayer is needed to guarantee and provide protection to users, especially farmers. The test results on several sprayer machinery produced in the country and imported with procedures referring to Indonesia’s National Standard (SNI) to indicate that the machine tools tested have met the specified criteria. This activity supports the achievement of the SDGs 2 in terms of against hunger through increasing food production.

DRONE TRAINING

Drone is well known as unmanned vehicle that controlled by a device such as remote control. Drones in nowadays are varies depend on their own purpose. CREATA was held a programme to enhance technician, lecturer, and students to participate in navigating or piloting drone. Agricultural drone that mainly used is sprayer drone. It was attended by many participants. Pupils were taught by main pilot and man in charge of spraying drone from overseas. The activities were went successfully and everyone enjoys by learning from it.

DEVELOPMENT OF TEA LEAVES WASTE PELLETS AS BOILER FUEL IN FOOD INDUSTRY

The purpose of the partnership research with industry in 2020 is to develop technology for processing industrial tea leaf waste into pellets that can be used as biomass fuel for boilers. The research includes the characterization of the psycho-chemical and thermal properties of tea leaf waste, development of technology for making pellets from tea leaf waste and testing the utilization of tea waste pellets as boiler fuel. The results showed that tea waste pellets can be used as boiler fuel quite well, so the industry is interested in developing a commercial scale of tea waste pellets production. This activity supports the achievement of the SDGs 9 in terms of on increasing industrial competitiveness and innovation and SDGs 15 that is maintain land ecosystem through utilization of agro-industry waste.

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SOLAR ENERGY-BASED DRYING MACHINES

Drying of agricultural products is usually done by drying or using a drying machine using fuel oil or agricultural waste. Drying has operational problems when it rains suddenly and the drying temperature varies. While the dryer requires a high enough fuel or energy. One solution to overcome the obstacles in both drying techniques is the development of a solar energy-based drying machine with the greenhouse effect (GHE) technique. A number of industries have developed various types of GHE dryers. In order to guarantee the quality of GHE dryers, a number of GHE dryers have been evaluated in 2020. The evaluation results show that the developed GHE drying machine can be used for drying agricultural commodities with good quality results and meets the specified quality requirements. Activities contribute to achieving the SDGs 7 for clean and affordable energy

MIXER SPRAYER DESIGN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES BETWEEN CREATA WITH SYNGENTA AND 9 OTHERS COMPANIES

CREATA IPB has collaborated with PT Syngenta and 9 companies that are members of the Consortium to design a mixer sprayer. Mixer sprayer is a tool that mixes water and herbicides/pesticides automatically when spraying takes place with a dose that suits your needs. The initial idea of this mixer design emerged from PT Syngenta urged by the problem that often arises is the remaining pesticide mixture which is finally disposed of by farmers into ditches or rivers. The disposal of the remaining pesticide/herbicide applications can pollute the environment and economically also waste resources. In addition, in the process of mixing and stirring chemicals with water there is a risk of chemicals that can hit the operator’s body. With the mixer sprayer, it is expected that sprayer users will be safer in using herbicides, as well as the environment will be protected from herbicide contamination that is harmful to other living things.

The success of the initial prototype design then encouraged 9 herbicide/pesticide companies to join in the development process. These companies are PT Multi Sarana Indotani, PT Adil Makmur Fajar, PT Dharma Guna Wibawa/PT Delta Giri Wacana Tbk., PT Maxxi Agri Indonesia, PT Sinar General Industries, PT Deltagro Mulia Sejati, PT Solo Logo Indonesia, PT Crop Care Indonesia and PT Inti Everspring Indonesia and sprayer company PT Golden Agin Nusa for the construction process.

COOPERATION MEETING BETWEEN KOAT (KOREA AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY PROMOTIUON AGENCY) AND CREATA

COMING SOON.

COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES BETWEEN YARI AND CREATA (SURVEY RESEARCH ON AGRICULTURAL TOOLS AND MACHINERY IN CENTRAL JAVA, EAST JAVA, SULAWESI, AND LAMPUNG)

COMING SOON.

PALM OIL RESEARCH GRANTS IN THE INDONESIAN PALM OIL RESEARCH WEEK 2024

Research Grant with funding from BPDPKS

Chaired by Dr. Dyah Wulandani and members Prof.Aris Purwanto, Dr. Soni Solistia, Maharani Dewi, MSi, ST and Dr. Anto Tri Sugiarto who raised the research topic of non-catalytic biodiesel production in a column reactor with fine bubble application.