Mitra Djamal
Karangsono Village as an objects of observations have more than 20 brown sugar factories managed by each family head. Each operates, each sugar factory is capable of grinding 8-11 tons of sugar cane / day, brown sugar production capacity of 600-800kg / day. With 1-2 tons of sugarcane waste capacity / day, sugar cane waste 100kg / day. The dedication object was carried out in one of the community sugar factories in Karangsono Village. For the surrounding community, the waste of sugar cane and charcoal waste was only stacked in storage during the ground season. The root of the problems faced by the Karangsono Village community is a lack of knowledge and the skills of the management of sugar cane waste. In general, sugarcane pulp is burned once a week to reduce the amount of stack of sugarcases in large quantities. This method also causes thick combustion smoke problems and spreads. Nearby factory location with residential housing has an impact on respiratory and environmental disorders. So that the problem of sugar cane waste is a social, environmental and health problem currently faced by the people of Karangsono Village. Smoke filters are environmentally friendly based on sugar cane waste and sugar cane pulp. Broadly speaking, in the chimney will be filled with plated air filter materials and pollutants. With the application of the technology, it has the opportunity to create a business of making chimneys as an air filter that can be applied to the brown sugar industry in Tulungagung Regency.
Application of appropriate technology
The processing of sugar cane waste and cane charcoal is very simple due to the limited knowledge of waste treatment is a problem that must be immediately overcome for the sustainability of the environmentally friendly industrial work environment.