Jurnal Online Mahasiswa (JOM) Bidang Teknik dan Sains
Vol 2, No 1 (2015): Wisuda Februari Tahun 2015

Perengkahan Katalitik Palm Fatty Acid Distillate Menjadi Biofuel Menggunakan Katalis Fly Ash Sawit

Widya Pangestu (Unknown)
Yelmida Yelmida (Unknown)
Zultiniar Zultiniar (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 May 2015

Abstract

Palm fly ash is a solid waste from process of shell and fiber burning. Palm fly ash have many component such as potassium, sodium, and silica, that make it can to be use as a catalyst. Palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) is a byproduct from process of making cooking oil. PFAD potentially to used to produce biofuel with catalytic cracking process because it has a long hydrocarbons chain.  This study aims to utilize PFAD to be raw material of making biofuel with palm fly ash as a catalyst, as well as to know component of biofuel produced. This research was conducted into two stages, namely preparation of catalyst and process of cracking. Cracking reaction carried out in a stirred tank reactor at a variation of temperature 370-4300C, variation of ratio feed/catalyst 100-250:1 g. Cracking process carried out for 120 minutes. Yield maximum product obtained at a temperature of 4100 C with ratio feed/catalyst 150:1 g and catalyst dimension -60+100 mesh that is equal to 57,14 Cracking results analyzed by GC-MS and found the biofuel produced more dominant is a constituent of gasoline fuel.   Keywords : Biofuel, Fly ash Sawit, Catalytic Cracking, PFAD

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