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Abstract-The Gasoline fueled single cylinder generator engine are well established and available in the market with reasonable price, in the other hand the biogas fueled engine for electric generator is not well established yet in the market. The biogas energy is easy to produce therefore the price for the biogas is very much cheaper than the gasoline. The purpose of this research is to find conversion method from gasoline to biogas fuelled of the single cylinder four stroke engine of electric generator. For this purpose the biogas should be upgraded to the level of zero impurities of hydrogen sulfide H 2 S, water (H 2 O) and reducing up to zero level of CO 2 impurities. The carburetor of the gasoline engine was replaced and only component of the mixer of the fuel and air were used. The intake of the biogas fueled should be completed with valve that can be opened automatically by vacuum of the suction stroke of the engine and compression ration of the engine should be increased until reach 9:1 of compression ratio. With this conversion method, the engine of the electric generator used for this research is run well and possible to reach maximum capacity that can be achieved by using gasoline previously.

Machine components such as crankshaft and gear require hard surface and ductile core characteristics. One method to obtained such characteristics is pack carburizing. This research concern to compare the mechanical properties of carburized low carbon steel under different carburizers; GBC (80% goat bone charcoal + 20% BaCO3) and BC (80% bamboo charcoal + 20% BaCO3) and derived from reference. Pack carburizing was carried out by heating up to a temperature of 950°C, holding for 4 hours and quenching in the oil. The results showed that hardness, yield strength, tensile strength and modulus elasticity of carburized steels increased significantly, however, there was a decrease in elongation. The closer to the core the lower of hardness obtained until reach a total case depth of 1.5 mm and 2 mm for carburized using BC and GBC, respectively. The use of carburizer GBC produces carburized steel with a higher yield strength (51.75 kg.mm−2), tensile strength (74.58 kg.mm−2), and elongation (5.78 %) than carburizer BC but lower in hardness (558.13 HV1), modulus elasticity (256.79 GPa), and effective case depth (0.33 mm). The mechanical properties of carburized low carbon steels have fulfilled requirements as the material of gear or shaft.

Abstract-The carbon rod of used zinc-carbon battery was investigated in this research to be recycled as biogas desulfurizer. The carbon rod was taken out from the used battery and crushed to become a pellet with about 1 cm long. To increase its performance, the carbon rod was put in solution of KMnO 4 and water then tested its performance as desulfurizer. It is found that the performance of desulfurizer increase by putting about 200 gram of carbon rod in the solution of KMnO 4 with minimum concentration of 20 gram KMnO4 /liter water. It is suggested during application to use low flow rate of biogas (around 1-3 liters/minute) to achieve maximum performance.

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