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A. INTRODUCTION Biodiesel is diesel engine fuel in the form of methyl ester fatty‐acids and can be blended with diesel at any ratio. Currently, an alternative raw material for producing biodiesel using oil‐fat that comes from recycled or waste oil is still sought. One of them is the raw material to be used in this [...]

Fruit ripening process in climacteric fruit (e.g. banana, apple, papaya and tomato) mostly indicated by respiration rate increasing at the onset of ripening process. Ethylene was knows as gaseous hormone which play role in induction those process. This hormone was produced from methionin catalyzed by two major enzyme ACC syntase (ACS) and ACC oxidase (ACO) [...]

Introduction Indonesia has been known as a country with a lot of volcanoes. This is indicated that there are great biodiversity in thermophilic organisms and therefore has great potential to get novel thermostable enzyme. Beside have good stability at high temperature, thermostable enzymes also have good stability in alkali and organic solvent. These properties meet [...]

Starch is a glucose polymer which has found many applications in food and non-food industries, such as.  Starch is used extensively in the industrial productions of sweetener, bioethanol, and fine chemicals. It plays also an important  role in textiles and paper industry. The main sources of starch material in industry are cassava, maize, potato, wheat [...]