In previous research, a polylactic chitin starch composite was prepared without the use of a solvent to enhance the miscibility. In this study, a polylactic acid (PLA) chitin starch composite was produced with chloroform as a plasticizer in the ratio 1:10. The blending of chitin and starch with PLA ranges from 2% to 8%. Tensile strength, impact, thermogravimetry analysis-Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (TGA)-FTIR, and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were used to test the thermomechanical properties. Also, the morphological properties, water absorption, and wear rate of the material was observed. The results showed that the tensile strength, yield strength, and impact strength were improved compared to the pure polylactic acid. Also, the elastic modulus of the samples increased, but were lower compared to that of the pure polylactic acid. The result of the fractured surface morphology showed good miscibility of the blending, which accounted for the good mechanical properties recorded in the study. The thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and derivative thermogravimetric analysis DTA show a single degradation and peak respectively, which is also shown in the glass temperature measures from the DSC analysis. The water absorption test shows that the water absorption rate increases with starch content and the wear rate recorded sample A (92% P/8% C) as the highest. The high miscibility projected was achieved with no void, with the use of chloroform as a plasticizer.

The interest in the utilization of palm oil ash is high, mainly due to their renewable material, opportunity to enhance the properties and possibility to use in a wide range of applications. Palm oil ash is the by-product of the palm oil mill boilers and locally available in the form of micro-size particles. In this research, optimization of the milling process was designed using the Taguchi method to find the most influencing parameters for the preparation of palm oil ash (POA) nanoparticles using a ball milling technique. The experiment was applied using a L9 orthogonal array and signal to noise ratio to investigate the performance of parameters, which are milling time, milling speed, and balls size. The results from signal to noise ratio reveal that to produce POA nanoparticles in optimum parameters, the size of balls shows the highest significant effect on the production of POA nanoparticles, followed by milling time and speed. The results of the parameters optimization experiment were validated by a confirmation test of milling machine operations.

Compressor at PT. Es Muda Perkasa that commonly failure is at unit D. So that need to optimize the compressor at unit D with finding the failure of the parts of the compressor and making the schedule of maintenance program to minimize the failure of the ice machine. This study using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) method, which applicate Grey FMEA to determine the priority of the machine maintenance. After conducting and implementing the RCM method, it was found that the failure occurs at Low-Pressure and High-Pressure Pump at compressor unit D, and sub-part failure happen on bearing, due to small coefficient, which is 0.566 where it become primarily failure component. For the next maintenance, using schedule on condition task on bearing parts of the machine could minimize the failure of the parts on the machine

Identification of magnetite nanoparticles synthesized from natural iron sand with a chemical treatment that is by using thecoprecipitation method on temperature and heated spaces, using a pair of acids and bases, i.e. HCL as a solvent NH4OH and as its precipation. The Crystal structure, the percentage of elements, the particle size and properties of the magnetism material characterization by XRD, XRF identification testing, and permagraph. From the results obtained in the Analysis that the value of the percentage purity of Fe3O4 are derived from Natural Sands before Extraction is of 81.42%, and once on extract 86.73% increase to its purity. From the results of the analysis of properties of ferrite magnet to Fe3O4from sand iron retrieved the value of Saturation Magnetization (Ms) produced amounted to 0.29 T, or residual magnetization Remanence (Br) of 0081 T, and Coercivityy(Hc) amounted to 1.82 kA/m expected data analysis results may explain the comparison characteristics in structure and magnetic properties of material with a natural sand Fe3O4 Aldrich so it can be an additional related information value added (added value) the local SDA.