Perengkahan PFAD (Palm Fatty Acid Distillate) Dengan Katalis Zeolit Sintesis Untuk Menghasilkan Biofuel

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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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