The effectiveness of the electricity and LPG for the sustainability of Sandfishes Holothuria scabra drying process on small islands

The small islands are suitable as Aquaculture location for Sandfishes Holothuria scabra, because of the pristine water conditions. The harvested Sandfishes sometimes marketed dried, but most of it marketed fresh because the drying process took a long time using the sun heat, and needs fully standby if use heat from firewood. Both methods have conditions that depend on nature; if in rainy weather, the sun heat is unavailable and firewood becomes wet, that makes fire unavailable so that the drying process should stop. The alternative energy sources on the small island potentially used for drying the Sandfishes are the communal electricity, which commonly operates for 12 hours, and the Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) 3 Kg that is regularly using for daily cooking purposes. Using electric energy and LPG for drying can apply to an oven. Drying experiment results at a temperature of 50 °C for 12 hours in an electric oven gained average weight shrinkage of 83.9%, and LPG gained an average weight loss of 87.8% were significantly different based on the Independent Samples t-Test. Cost for 12 hours of electricity consumption is IDR 3,960 lower than the LPG consumption, which is IDR 5,833. Oven production capacity is 32 fresh Sandfishes weight of 500 g, which produces Sandfishes dry weight around 2 kg within the selling price class of IDR 2.2 million/kg.