APPLICATION OF FECES BRIQUETTE FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY IN INDONESIA'S VILLAGES

The number of people in the world increase rapidly every day. This condition also make the needs of consumption increase. One of the best way to solve the problem is by increase the number of livestock. According to data from Central Statistics Agency, the number of livestock in Indonesia by 2017 are 2.313.941 heads. Livestock’s waste and its by-products supply greenhouse gas emissions at least 32.564 million tons of CO_2e per year, or about 51 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. In other place, according from source data in 2016, there are 12.659 villages from total 74.759 villages in Indonesia are still living with no electricity. This study aimed to generalize the electrical activities in Indonesia also to minimize gas emission and environmental pollution produced by livestock’s waste (feces). Methods used in this study divided into two steps, feces briquette making and briquette converting into electrical source then measured by calorimeter bomb. The result of this study showed that calories produced from 4 kgs feces briquettes are equally the same with 10,64 kgs coals. As conclusion, instead of using non renewable energy from coal, feces briquette which can be produce everyday is much more efficient for electrical source.