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Cassava is one of Indonesia's original commodities and contains good nutrition and has high productivity and a relatively low price. Cassava flour has a high potential as a substitute for imported wheat flour that is widely used in noodle production. The main purpose of this research was to develop wet noodles from cassava flour that can compete with wet noodles from wheat flour. The research consisted of experiments with several variations of composition and production method for producing cassava flour-based wet noodles. The best result was then examined for its nutritional value, economical value, and market response, and also a comparison was made between the prepared wet noodles and the standard noodles made from wheat flour. The analysis was based on five characteristics: taste, texture, chewiness, aroma, and appearance. Relations between these characteristics with composition, materials used, and methods applied are discussed. The developed cassava flour-based wet noodle meets physical, nutritional, and economical standards. Raw materials of the noodle were cassava flour and a wheat flour composite with a 5:1 ratio, egg, gluten, soda-ash, water, and vegetable oil, while the process was completed in multiple stages. Market response showed that the cassava flour-based wet noodles were 80% similar to wheat-flour noodles.

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A brief review of the potential for microwave heating in the manufacture of fiberreinforced composites is presented, with particular emphasis on the Microwave Assisted Pultrusion (MAP). Manufacture of a 6 mm cylindrical glass reinforced profile, based on a number of latent-cure epoxy resins by MAP is described. These materials combine room temperature stability (long pot life) with rapid crosslinking at elevated temperature. The measured line speeds exceeded 2 m/min, using approximately 800 W of applied microwave power in a single mode TM,,, cavity operating at 2450 MHz. The measured pulling force was about 250 N, showing a stick-slip behavior for a crosslinked profile. The ultimate tensile strength and the interlaminar shear strength of the profiles increased after post curing, suggesting that the extent of crosslinking in the MAP die may be diffusion limited. Permeability of free space, 1.25 X lo4 H/m Relative permeability Electrical conductivity, siemens/m Density, kg/m3 Angular frequency, rad/s Heat of reaction, kJ/kg POLYMER COMPOSITES, AUGUST2000, Val. 21, No. 4 593 J. M . M e t h v e n , S . R. ( i y a n L, and A. 2. Abidin

MASARO technology presents a solution in solving the waste problem through an organic waste processing unit, known as IPPO (Organic Fertilizer and Feed Industry). The Masaro system characterises solid waste into five catagories including organic waste, low value plastic waste, incenerated waste, recycled waste, and hazardous waste. The organic waste will be separated into an organic fast-decaying waste to produce POCI (Special Liquid Organic Fertilizer) and KOCI (Special Liquid Organic Concentrate), and an organic slow-decaying waste to produce a compost. POCI is used as an organic fertilizer and its farming produces a higher production number, higher quality product, faster production rate while its production cost is lower. KOCI and compost is applied in the farm industry where the organic waste with low economic value is used as a raw material to produce new materials with higher economic value. These products can produce an environmentally friendly system and reflect the circular economy principle application. The organic waste is used as raw material for IPPO and its products form a circular economy through aplication in the farm industry that create lower cost production and sustainable development.