UNDIP – Along with the development of innovation and creativity in supporting the creation of a zero waste and zero emission environment. Emerging breakthrough ideas from the BIONIDE team from students of the Industrial Chemical Engineering Technology Study Program (TRKI) Vocational School of Diponegoro University who succeeded in making a brilliant achievement of winning 2nd place in the prestigious Kurva 2024 Pupuk Kujang Cikampek competition (3/9) by developing digitalization of fertilizer industry waste processing.
Thanks to this innovation, the BIONIDE Team led by I Dhafa Febrian (Dhafa) along with 4 colleagues, namely Rhasna Wiritanaya Witrisnanti (Rhasna), Earlene Dascha Faustina (Earlene), Sheva Risga Tristarini (Sheva), and Zulfan Amirul Milla (Zulfan) were able to qualify for the top 10 grand finals to win second place in the Kurva 2024 competition competing with ITB as the 1st place winner and UGM as the 3rd place winner organized by BUMN Pupuk Kujang Cikampek.
Dean of UNDIP Vocational School Prof. Dr. Ir. Budiyono, M.Si greatly appreciated and said that UNDIP Vocational School should be proud, its students have shown the best achievements and have an impact on the wider community. The role and support of the supervising lecturer Mohamad Endy Yulianto, S.T, M.T., as well as the Head of the Study Program (Kaprodi) TRKI SV UNDIP also played a role in providing continuous motivation for the BIONIDE team. “Regular discussions and intensive guidance on clean water technology for people living in industrial areas have led to the development and refinement of innovation,” said Endy.
Dhafa further explained that the use of water for household and industrial needs is a very crucial issue in various sectors. “In fact, recently many people living in industrial areas have begun to complain about the difficulty of accessing clean water. Therefore, the BIONIDE Team was moved to take part in contributing through creative and innovative ideas,” he explained.
“In addition, the BIONIDE Team was inspired by the many rivers that were polluted by waste due to industrial activities. The BIONIDE Team came up with an innovative idea by reducing ammonia levels that can be harmful to the aquatic environment. So this project was created in the framework of an innovation competition held by one of the fertilizer industries under the auspices of BUMN, namely Pupuk Kujang Cikampek,” added Sheva. Meanwhile, Rhasna said that his team has a role in reducing ammonia in industrial waste before the waste is disposed of in the free environment bordering residential areas. “The BIONIDE Team’s innovation concept is to adapt the principle of Nitrification – Denitrification using MBBR (Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor) media coated with bacillus cereus bacterial biofilm to reduce ammonia levels by up to 90% digitally,” explained Rhasna.
Earlene also added that through this project, by-products are not just thrown away because the BIONIDE Team is committed to continuing to maintain environmental sustainability by utilizing by-products into innovative products that have sales value and have a good impact on the environment. “This new breakthrough certainly provides a breath of fresh air for the industrial sector in Indonesia to be able to contribute to realizing environmental harmony to support the creation of zero waste and zero emissions,” said Earlene. Dhafa said that zero waste innovation by utilizing waste from the process can be used as an innovative composite. The sludge from the metabolism of bacillus cereus bacteria will later be deposited and then collected for further processing. “With appropriate technology, the sludge is combined with cocopeat, and the nutrients needed by plants are added. Therefore, this green technology innovation, in addition to processing ammonia, also produces products that are useful for environmental sustainability,” said Dhafa. “Of course, there is great hope from the thoughts and innovations of the BIONIDE team, in the future it can be applied and developed in large and medium-scale industries, especially for the fertilizer industry in Indonesia, so that it can bring benefits,” concluded Zulfan. (Endy-SV & DHW-Humas)
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