Harnessing Liquid Smoke: Quality Evaluation of Organic Waste Combustion in Smokeless Incinerators

Abstract

Waste Organic is consisting of food scraps, agricultural waste, and other natural materials that can be decomposed and returned to the environment. Incinerators are one of the best technologies for waste management. Liquid smoke is a distillation or condensation of vapor from indirect or direct combustion of materials that contain a lot of carbon and other compounds. This study aims to analyze the quality of liquid smoke produced by smokeless waste combustion devices using organic waste. This research is a quasi-experiment by analyzing the quality of liquid smoke produced from burning organic waste on the duration of burning time. Based on the duration of burning time of 15 and 25 minutes the results of the analysis on the parameters of total acid, total phenol, N-Total, phosphorus, potassium, C-Organic, and pH in the samples of straw waste, coconut pulp waste and food waste have no effect or no significant difference in the quality of the parameters tested. This can be seen from the significant value (sig) which has a value> 0.05. The quality of liquid smoke produced using a smokeless waste combustion device has not met the standards of the Decree of the Indonesian Minister of Agriculture number 261/KPTS/SR.310/M/4/2019 concerning minimum technical requirements for organic fertilizers. Smokeless waste combustion devices can be used to process waste but the liquid smoke produced cannot be used as liquid organic fertilizer.

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