ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

Shamsul Rahman Mohamad Kutty1 , Leong Siew Yoong1,2 and Tan Chew Khun2
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610 Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia.
2Department of Petrochemical Engineering,Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Barat, 31900 Kampar, Perak, Malaysia.
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2015;9(Spl. Edn. 2):533-537
© The Author(s). 2015
Received: 02/09/2015 | Accepted: 10/11/2015 | Published: 30/11/2015
Abstract

In this study, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Startiomyidae) a decomposer by nature was used as an agent for converting food waste and this process is known as bioconversion.   Bioconversion is a transformation process of waste into valuable product using microorganism or higher biota organisms.  In this study, waste reduction index (WRI), efficiency of conversion of digested food (ECD), growth rate (GR, g. d-1) and survival of the H. illucens larvae were determined.  The experiment was designed with three different feed loading of 1, 5 and 25 g and.  Food wastes as the feed were supplied to the larvae daily.  The  highest waste reduction index (WRI) value was 4.35 ± 0.17 fed with 1 g of feed, followed by 3.91 ± 0.15 with 5 g of feed and the lowest WRI value was 1.98 ± 0.28 fed with 25 g of  feed.  Growth rate of the larvae was determined with the changes in the biomass per day.  The highest larvae biomass gained was achieved at 78.3 wt% feeding with 25 g of food waste. The one-way ANOVA showed the significant difference between the mean larvae biomass with different loading (P < 0.05; F = 15.82; d.f = 2, 48).  We conclude   that, food waste fed   is a suitable feed for the larvae proliferation and at the same time successfully reduces the waste.

Keywords

Bioconversion, Food waste, Hermetia illucens larvae, waste reduction

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