Currently the pineapple leaf paper that is produced by using local wisdom is 50 centimeters wide and 64 centimeters long. Therefore the product of the Cooperative is small. And because the size of the paper is limited they cannot be used for producing room divider big umbrella or big painting as per customer’s demand and the members of the cooperative cannot produce large sheet of paper. The researchers therefore designed the Pineapple fibrous leaf sieving Equipment in order to produce large sheet of paper. The equipment consists of a square basin for washing leaf fiber sized 185 centimeters 10 centimeter deep with a 90-centimeter high stand to support the basin and installed the mechanism to lift up the sieve that is used to take up the pineapple leaf fiber. The sieve is 150 centimeters x 150 centimeters which is the largest size possible because the leaf fiber washing must is done by hand. If the sieve is bigger we will not be able to reach to the leaf fiber in the center. Base on the experiment of pineapple leaf paper production by using the new equipment as compared to the paper production as per local wisdom by using 2.5 kilograms pineapple leaf fiber and the paper thickness shall be fixed at 0.35 millimeters it is found that the production that use pineapple fibrous leaf sieving equipment takes 647 second on average and the production as per local wisdom takes 1421 second on average. In other words the equipment can help to reduce the time in paper production of 774 second or 54 %. Apart from that the researcher produced the paper with different thickness by increasing the pineapple leaf fiber by 0.5 kilograms per one sheet of paper so that there are more options to choose in order to match with various products. The amount of leaf fiber used in the production starts from 3 kilograms to 7.5 kilogram per sheet and the thickness of the paper is from 0.36 millimeters and the thickest paper is 1.2 millimeters thick using approximately 7.5 kilograms of leaf fiber. If we use more leaf fiber for paper production the paper will be overweight and it will be sagging.

This research was aimed to investigate for pineapple leaf paper drying. In this study process of drying the paper as a final step after the other. Paper drying time takes in solar energy to dry naturally for at least 2-3 days or more without natural sunshine. Solar hybrid energy dryer was designed for drying faster than traditional drying. The development of solar hybrid energy dryer ability to operate continuously. The solar dryer receives the heat from sunshine by passing into the solar panel dimension 1 x 2.6 m2 . The panel was installed on the top of the oven which declined 15 degree from the ground. The dimension of the oven is 1 x 1.05 x 1.30 m3 and have added heat to paraphrase another 2 rooms and heater 4 kW with controller and have added heat to paraphrase another 2 rooms. The dryer installed heater 4 kW with temperature controller and blower 0.22 kW serves as the circulation of heat in the oven to constant flow of 0.138 m3 / s. Experiment research test 3 types ; the use of solar energy alone the use of solar heater with a temperature of 50 55 and 60 °C and the heater only at 50 55 and 60 °C with three temperature settings. The variables in the study such as temperature humidity in the dryer humidity and Solar energy affect the pineapple leaf paper drying time. Experimental results from solar heater hybrid with 60 °C temperature setting was dried in minimum period of 3 hours and half at an average initial moisture content 1043.70% db to the final moisture content of 9.12% db. Highest average temperature in the dryer was 64.33 °C with electrical energy consumption 10.5 kWh. The use of only solar drying was dried in maximum period of 5 hours at an average initial moisture content 1070.98% db to the final moisture content of 15.84% db. Highest average temperature in the dryer was 39.89 °C with minimum electrical energy consumption 10.5 kWh.