Sintesis Komposit TiO2-Bentonit Dan Aplikasinya Untuk Penurunan BOD Dan COD Air Embung UNNES

Have done synthesized composite TiO2-bentonite to decrease BOD and COD. This study aims to determine the process of form he composite TiO2-bentonite and determine the best catalyst in the process of photodegradation water reservoir. The study begins with the preparation of TiO2-bentonite. Results composite formation characterized using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The catalyst is tested TiO2, bentonite, TiO2-bentonite which is applied to the water reservoir with the exposure time for 30 menit.Terbentuknya composite TiO2-bentonite indicated by TiO2 reflection on the 2θ ≥ 25. FTIR analysis results using the Ti-O between the range 400-700 cm-1 in this case is shown in peak 478.35 and 594.08. The main absorption peak-absorption on bentonite beradi at wavenumber 3626.17 cm-1, 3448.72 and 1635.64 cm-1. TiO2-bentonite spectra did not indicate any shift in absorption at wavenumber 3448.72 cm-1 which has not shown the OH bond is weakened by the existence of TiO2 in between layers of bentonite. Impairment The BOD and COD obtained using the TiO2-bentonite for BOD 18.40 ppm and 10.05 ppm COD. TiO2-bentonite composite capability greater than TiO2 catalyst and bentonite

The Effect of Waste Bagasse (Saccharum SP) Fertilizer Toward Growth of Peanuts (Arachis Hypogaea L.)

The process of sugar cane into sugar which is carried out in the sugar mill produces bagasse obtained from the milling process around 32% of the total cane processed. Sugarcane production in Indonesia in 2007 amounted to 21 million tons, the potential of bagasse produced about 6 million tons of bagasse per year. Up untill now almost every cane sugar mills uses bagasse as boiler fuel, animal feed mixes and the rest are burned or thrown away. One of alternative solid waste management is to turn solid waste into compost.The purpose of this research is to understand the effect of bagasse fertilizer on growth and progress of peanut plants (Arachis hypogaea L.). Bagasse fertilizer made using cow dung as bioactivator. Bagasse obtained from several places in Semarang mashed with finely enough size. Then, with a ratio of cow dung and bagasse 1: 3. Placed in a container then mix and sealed until there is no incoming air. Every 4 or 5 days in 4 weeks is being inverted. After 4 weeks it will get bagasse fertilizer with characteristic brown color, odorless and slightly moist. This research uses three treatments there are peanuts with mixed bagasse fertilizer on the soil medium, compost on the soil medium, and without fertilizer then measured the progress for 14 days. After 14 days, so it obtained an average of plants height and number of leaves. Respectively, are 2.10; 1.38; 2.24 while the number of leaves are 2.55; 2.66; 3.2

Sintesis dan Karakteristik Tio2 dan Sio2 Serta Aplikasinya terhadap Kadar Fe dalam Air Sumur

SINTESIS DAN KARAKTERISTIK TiO2 DAN SiO2 SERTA APLIKASINYA TERHADAP KADAR Fe DALAM AIR SUMURABSTRAK Air merupakan kebutuhan yang terpenting dalam kehidupan manusia. Air berperan banyak dalam berbagai kegiatan manusia oleh karena itu kandungan yang ada di air harus bermanfaat bagi manusia. Banyak kandungan yang terdapat di air yang sangat bermanfaat, tetapi bayak juga kandungan air yang mungkin tidak bermanfaat bahkan bahaya jika digunakan oleh manusia, salah satunya yaitu kandungan logam berat terutama Fe (besi). Sehingga tujuan pada penelitian ini untuk mengetahui penurunan kadar Fe (besi) dalam air sumur yang di lakukan dengan fotokimia dengan TiO2 dan SiO2 serta dapat mengidentifikasi karakteristik dari TiO2 dan SiO2. Sampel yang digunakan yaitu air sumur 300 m dibagi menjadi tiga masing-masing 100 ml dengan perlakuan yang berbeda. Pada sampel 100 ml pertama tidak diberikan perlakuan dan juga penambahan. Sampel 100 ml kedua diperlakukan dengan penambahan SiO2 dan pengadukan selama 1 jam, dan untuk sampel 100 ml ketiga diperlakukan dengan penambahan TiO2 dan pengadukan selama 1 jam. Ketiga sampel dengan perlakuan yang berbeda tersebut di analisis dengan menggunakan AAS (Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy) di Laboratorium Kimia Universitas Negeri Semarang. Hasil penelitian Analisis menggunakan AAS (Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy) menunjukkan hasil kadar Fe meningkat pada saat penambahan SiO2 dan TiO2 terhadap sampel yang tidak mendapatkan perlakuan tambahan. kadar Fe pada sampel yang tanpa penambahan sebanyak 0,206 mg/L, kemudian kadar Fe pada sampel yang ditambahkan SiO2 sebenyak 0,225 mg/L, dan kadar Fe pada sampel dengan penambahan TiO2 sebanyak 0,214 mg/L. Hal ini dikarenakan bentuk TiO2 dan SiO2 berupa suspensi. Kelemahan sistem suspensi ini adalah pemisahan partikel TiO2 memerlukan waktu yang lama dan biaya yang sangat mahal,serta daya tembus sinar sinar UV yang terbatas karena absorbsi yang kuat oleh TiO2 (efek bayangan) dan spesies organik terlarut. Kata Kunci: air sumur, TiO2, SiO2, Logam besi (Fe). SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF TiO2 AND SiO2 APPLICATION TOWARD LEVELS OF Fe IN THE WELL WATERABSTRACTWater is the most important need in human life. Also, water has many contributions in many human activities. Therefore, the existing content in the water must be beneficial for human. However, material contained in water may be beneficial yet dangerous for human as well, for instance heavy metals content, especially Fe (iron). The main objective of this study is to determine decreasing levels of Fe (iron) in the well water that is done by photochemical reaction using TiO2 and SiO2, and identify the characteristics of TiO2 and SiO2. Samples of well water used is 300 ml divided into three part, and every part of 100 ml water will be given different treatment. First 100 mL sample is not given any treatment and addition. Second 100 mL samples treated with the addition of SiO2 and stirring for an hour, and the third sample of 100 mL is treated with the addition of TiO2 and stirring for an hour. All of three samples with different treatments are analyzed using AAS (Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy) in the Chemistry Laboratory Semarang State University. The research result of analysis using AAS (Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy) shows Fe content increased as the addition of SiO2 and TiO2 in the samples than the sample without any additional treatment. Fe content in the sample without addition is 0.206 mg/L, while Fe content in the sample with addition of SiO2 is 0.225 mg/L, and Fe content in the sample with the addition of TiO2 is 0.214 mg/L. This caused by the form of TiO2 and SiO2 is a suspension. The weakness of this suspension system is the TiO2 particle separation takes a long time, very expensive, and also limited UV rays penetrating power because of the strong absorption by TiO2 (shadow effect) and may dissolved organic species

Changes in prevalence of obesity and high waist circumference over four years across European regions: the European male ageing study (EMAS).

Diversity in lifestyles and socioeconomic status among European populations, and recent socio-political and economic changes in transitional countries, may affect changes in adiposity. We aimed to determine whether change in the prevalence of obesity varies between the socio-politically transitional North-East European (Łódź, Poland; Szeged, Hungary; Tartu, Estonia), and the non-transitional Mediterranean (Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Florence, Italy) and North-West European (Leuven, Belgium; Malmö, Sweden; Manchester, UK) cities. This prospective observational cohort survey was performed between 2003 and 2005 at baseline and followed up between 2008 and 2010 of 3369 community-dwelling men aged 40-79 years. Main outcome measures in the present paper included waist circumference, body mass index and mid-upper arm muscle area. Baseline prevalence of waist circumference ≥ 102 cm and body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m2, respectively, were 39.0, 29.5 % in North-East European cities, 32.4, 21.9 % in Mediterranean cities, and 30.0, 20.1 % in North-West European cities. After median 4.3 years, men living in cities from transitional countries had mean gains in waist circumference (1.1 cm) and body mass index (0.2 kg/m2), which were greater than men in cities from non-transitional countries (P = 0.005). North-East European cities had greater gains in waist circumference (1.5 cm) than in Mediterranean cities (P < 0.001). Over 4.3 years, the prevalence of waist circumference ≥ 102 cm had increased by 13.1 % in North-East European cities, 5.8 % in the Mediterranean cities, 10.0 % in North-West European cities. Odds ratios (95 % confidence intervals), adjusted for lifestyle factors, for developing waist circumference ≥ 102 cm, compared with men from Mediterranean cities, were 2.3 (1.5-3.5) in North-East European cities and 1.6 (1.1-2.4) in North-West European cities, and 1.6 (1.2-2.1) in men living in cities from transitional, compared with cities from non-transitional countries. These regional differences in increased prevalence of waist circumference ≥ 102 cm were more pronounced in men aged 60-79 years than in those aged 40-59 years. Overall there was an increase in the prevalence of obesity (body mass index  ≥ 30 kg/m2) over 4.3 years (between 5.3 and 6.1 %) with no significant regional differences at any age. Mid-upper arm muscle area declined during follow-up with the greatest decline among men from North-East European cities. In conclusion, increasing waist circumference is dissociated from change in body mass index and most rapid among men living in cities from transitional North-East European countries, presumably driven by economic and socio-political changes. Information on women would also be of value and it would be of interest to relate the changes in adiposity to dietary and other behavioural habits

Synthetic light-cone catalogues of modern redshift and weak lensing surveys waith abacussummit

The joint analysis of different cosmological probes, such as galaxy clustering and weak lensing, can potentially yield invaluable insights into the nature of the primordial Universe, dark energy, and dark matter. However, the development of high-fidelity theoretical models is a necessary stepping stone. Here, we present public high-resolution weak lensing maps on the light-cone, generated using the N-body simulation suite abacussummit, and accompanying weak lensing mock catalogues, tuned to the Early Data Release small-scale clustering measurements of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. Available in this release are maps of the cosmic shear, deflection angle, and convergence fields at source redshifts ranging from z = 0.15 to 2.45 as well as cosmic microwave background convergence maps for each of the 25 base-resolution simulations (and Npart = 69123) as well as for the two huge simulations (and Npart = 86403) at the fiducial abacussummit cosmology. The pixel resolution of each map is 0.21 arcmin, corresponding to a healpix Nside of 16 384. The sky coverage of the base simulations is an octant until z ≈ 0.8 (decreasing to about 1800 deg2 at z ≈ 2.4), whereas the huge simulations offer full-sky coverage until z ≈ 2.2. Mock lensing source catalogues are sampled matching the ensemble properties of the Kilo-Degree Survey, Dark Energy Survey, and Hyper Suprime-Cam data sets. The mock catalogues are validated against theoretical predictions for various clustering and lensing statistics, such as correlation multipoles, galaxy-shear, and shear-shear, showing excellent agreement. All products can be downloaded via a Globus endpoint (see Data Availability section)