The Waste Management Laboratory is a laboratory in the Department of Food and Agricultural Products Technology whose function is to develop techniques for processing and utilizing food waste and agricultural products through the application of microbiology, chemistry, and process engineering.
Scope
- Agro-industrial waste
- Handling in physics, chemistry, biology
- Environmentally friendly agro-industry
Research Topics
- Biogas from tropical fruit waste
- Production of cellulases and xylanases for the preparation of fermentation substrates from agro-industrial wastes
- Pre-treatment of agro-industrial waste for bioethanol and biogas production
- Ethanol production from agro-industrial waste
- Breeding of microorganisms for the utilization of agro-industrial waste
- Production of volatile fatty acids from empty oil palm fruit bunches
Lectures and Laboratory Practice
- Waste Management
- Waste Management – Laboratory Practice
Public Service
- Analysis of solids in food industry waste and agricultural products
- Analysis of BOD and COD in liquid waste
- Analysis of CH4, CO2, ethanol, methanol, cresol, phenol, indole, and volatile fatty acids (acetic acid, butyric acid, and propionic acid)
Training
- Agro-industrial waste processing training
- Training on the analysis of liquid waste from the food industry and agricultural products
Main Equipment Facilities
- Sludge/Suspended Solid Apparatus
- COD Apparatus
- Bench-scale Bio-oxidation Systems Apparatus
- furnace
- UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
- Gas Chromatography
Member of Waste Management Laboratory
- Dr. Ir. Muhammad Nur Cahyanto, M.Sc.
- Dr. Ria Millati, S.T., M.T.
- Dian Anggraini Suroto, S.T.P., M.P., M.Eng., Ph.D.
Technician of Waste Management Laboratory
- Rohmatun Nafiah, S.T.P.