Abstract: Palm Fatty Acid
Distillate (PFAD) is a by-product of the manufacture of cooking oil. The PFAD has
a high potential to be used as raw material for biofuel by catalytic cracking
because it is a long-chain hydrocarbon.
This research aims
to study the
influence of time
and temperature conversion reaction
to catalytic cracking
reaction using zeolite
catalyst synthesis. The PFAD
cracking was taken
place in a
batch stirred tank
reactor at the temperature of
240, 260, 280,
300oC for 60,
80, 100, 120
minutes. The changes
in functional groups of
cracking products were
analyzed using FTIR
(Fourier Transform Infra Red), while the analysis of components
contained in the product was conducted using GCMS (Gas Chromatography Mass
Spectra) analysis. The
highest reaction conversion
result (98.7%) was obtained at a temperature of 280oC and the
reaction time of 100 minutes. The cracking
process did not
produce biofuels, but
the compounds formed
were in the
form of tridecanoic acid (C13H26NO2),
Cholest-8-en-3-ol (C28H48O) and methyl vinyl ketone (C4H6O).
Keywords: FTIR, GCMS, PFAD, zeolite synthesys
Penulis: Yelmida, Ida Zahrina,
Fajril Akbar
Kode Jurnal: jpkimiadd120033
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