Title: Turn disaster into valuable product - potential recovery of Lapindo volcanic mud
Authors: Bimastyaji Surya Ramadan; Nurani Ikhlas; Dimastyaji Yusron Nurseta; Ika Fitri Ulfindrayani
Addresses: Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Diponegoro, Jawa Tengah 50275, Indonesia ' Environmental Sustainability Research Group, Department of Environmental Engineering, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, 50275, Indonesia ' Environmental Sustainability Research Group, Department of Environmental Engineering, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, 50275, Indonesia ' Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Teknologi Surabaya, Jawa Timur 60188, Indonesia
Abstract: A hot mud eruption [often called Lapindo volcanic mud (LVM)] that occurred in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, since 2008 has harmed the environment. However, utilising this mud is essential to reduce the financial losses from the disaster. LVM can be utilised as advanced material and valuable product with high economic value. This paper discusses the LVM preparation method, and the potential of material recovery extracted from LVM constructively. This desk study showed that LVM could be used as an alternative to making innovative and low-cost construction materials such as cement binders, raw materials for bricks, concrete blocks, and concrete composers; cheap adsorbents; and catalysts both for wastewater treatment and solar cells assembly. Various innovations and development of other materials and valuable products such as ceramic, geopolymers, and nano-adsorbents are still being studied extensively. This paper is expected to fill the gaps in mud recovery and utilisation.
Keywords: advanced material; Indonesia; Lapindo volcanic mud; LVM; mud recovery; valuable product.
DOI: 10.1504/IJEWM.2024.139244
International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, 2024 Vol.34 No.2, pp.151 - 169
Accepted: 21 Jan 2022
Published online: 28 Jun 2024 *