Dinamika dan Karakter Produk Hasil Dekarboksilasi Sabun Hidroksi Pelargonat

Ella Melyna (Program Studi Teknik Kimia Polimer, Politeknik STMI Jakarta, Jl. Letjend Suprapto No. 26, Jakarta Pusat 10510, Indonesia)
Tirto Prakoso (Program Studi Teknik Bioenergi dan Kemurgi, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Kampus Jatinangor, Jl. Let. Jend. Purn. Dr. (HC) Mashudi No. 1, Sumedang 45363, Indonesia)
Tatang Hernas Soerawidjaja (Program Studi Teknik Bioenergi dan Kemurgi, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Kampus Jatinangor, Jl. Let. Jend. Purn. Dr. (HC) Mashudi No. 1, Sumedang 45363, Indonesia)

Jurnal Teknik Kimia dan Lingkungan
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021): April 2021

The development of biofuel have a lot of advantages for national growth, such as, imports reduction of fuel and increasing national energy security and sustainability. Therefore, biofuel production technology for substitution of fuel oil especially gasoline, is very important. One of technology method to produce biogasoline is decarboxylation of pelargonic hydroxy metal soap. Magnesium hydroxy pelargonate [Mg(OH)(OOCC8H17)] can be decarboxylated to produce n-octane [C8H18] and magnesium carbonate [MgCO3] which at temperatures close to 500oC decompose into MgO and CO2. The objectives of this research is to investigate comprehensively the dynamics and character liquid products from decarboxylation of pelargonic hydroxy soap [Mg(OH)OOCC8H17] reaction at temperature range of 250-350oC.