The Design and Performance of Maggot Harvester

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10.2991/978-94-6463-274-3_25How to use a DOI?

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Maggot BSF; Harvester; Performance

Abstract

Organic waste from porang flour production in the form of calcium oxalate dust from Pilot Plant Faculty of Agricultural Technology, University of Brawijaya reaches 400-600 kg per ton porang chips milling. Combined with household and restaurant waste in Malang, which can reach 689 tons per day in organic matter, can be decomposed by using Black Soldier Flies (BSF) maggot. Maggot is a source of protein that can be used as fish, poultry, and animal feed which can be processed into dry maggot or maggot flour. The high cost of imported maggot flour processing machines with a large capacity is inappropriate for the small-scale industry, the absence of maggot harvesting tools also makes the work done manually and takes time. Thus, to facilitate the process of harvesting, drying, and making maggot flour, it is necessary to design a machine to support these activities so that the results can produce added value for high-protein maggot flour. This study aims to design a maggot harvester machine and test its performance for the small to middle-scale industry. The maggot harvester machine was successfully designed and built. The performance of the maggot harvester machine can successfully harvest the maggot and also differentiate between maggot, organic fine compost, and organic coarse compost. The results show that the best slope and sieve speed combination is a slope of 25.7% with a rotational speed of 10 rpm producing 650 grams of maggot. Meanwhile, the 150-watt halogen lamp effect on the maggot harvest time resulted in the fastest maggot harvest time, which was 370.2 seconds.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mochamad Bagus Hermanto
AU  - Retno Damayanti
AU  - Yusuf Hendrawan
AU  - Himatul Yusril Muna
AU  - Muhamad Dimas Febriawan
AU  - Faiz Aminul Hikam
AU  - Nabila Intan Milania
AU  - Ahmad Mu’minin Fauzi Elfamas
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/10/27
TI  - The Design and Performance of Maggot Harvester
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources (IC-FANRES 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 291
EP  - 300
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-274-3_25
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-274-3_25
ID  - Hermanto2023
ER  -