MTCRC Joint Research Initiative 2024

Abstract

The Government of The Republic of Indonesia through Presidential Regulation No. 18 of 2020 designed a sustainable revitalization of national shrimp ponds where the blue economy concept of shrimp ponds could realize economic growth and community welfare. However, disease outbreaks in shrimp ponds had become more frequent in recent years and had caused the declining of productivity in shrimp aquaculture. Various methods had been used biologically by adding probiotics, but it was still not optimal for preventing disease. Water quality management was the main key to disease control in shrimp ponds. Physicochemical water treatment technology had not been widely used in ponds because it was felt to be quite expensive. The aim of this research was to develop an economical pond water treatment technology using self-supplying oxygen material and an advanced oxidation process to degrade waste and prevent disease in shrimp ponds. The method used was divided into three stages, where there was a production stage, a characterization stage and a laboratory scale test stage. Material production was made from hydrated lime (Ca(OH)2) which was reacted with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and composited with peracetic acid. Those material were pro analyte standard. The products made into two variation, granule and powder. Next, the material was characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and active oxygen measurement. Preliminary results indicate that the current product has successfully achieved the desired composite targets and is ready to proceed to laboratory-scale testing. Owing to temporal limitations, the laboratory-scale testing stage has been postponed. Nevertheless, this research endeavor will continue, and interim results are presented herein.