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ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering
ISSN : 26555409     EISSN : 26555409     DOI : https://doi.org/10.22146/ajche.52004
The ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering publishes papers on Chemical Engineering, specifically but not limited to the areas of thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, transport phenomena, process control, environment, energy, biotechnology, corrosion, separation science, powder technology, materials science, and chemical engineering education
Articles 372 Documents
Effect of Reaction Parameters on the Lipase-Catalyzed Kinetic Resolution of (RS )-Metoprolol Mariani Rajin; Asiah binti Zulkifli; Sariah Abang; S.M Anissuzzaman; Azlina Harun Kamaruddin
ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 20, No 1 (2020)
Publisher : Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/ajche.51857

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Racemic metoprolol is a selective ß1-blocker, which is used in cardiovascular disease treatment. It has been found that (S)-metoprolol has a higher affinity to bind the ß-adrenergic receptor compared to (R)-metoprolol. Moreover, the regulatory authorities’ high market demand and guidelines have increased the preference for single enantiomer drugs. In this work, the lipase-catalyzed kinetic resolution of racemic metoprolol was performed to obtain the desired enantiomer. The type of lipase, acyl donor, and solvent were screened out. This was achieved by Candida antarctica B lipase-catalyzed transesterification of racemic metoprolol in hexane and vinyl acetate as the solvent and an acyl donor, which gave maximum conversion of (S)-metoprolol (XS) of 52%, enantiomeric excess of substrate, (ees) of 92% and product (eeP) of 90% with enantiomeric ratio (E) of 62. This method can be considered as green chemistry, which can be applied to produce other enantiopure beta-blockers.
Oil Refinery Heat Exchanger Network Cleaning Scheduling Strategy with Unit Cleanability Consideration Hairul Huda; Renanto Handogo; Totok Ruki Biyanto; Wei Wu; Vincentius Surya Kurnia Adi
ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 20, No 1 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/ajche.51880

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Heat exchanger networks (HENs) play an important role in the chemical industries. Unfortunately, fouling is inevitable in heat exchangers operation. Therefore, the optimal cleaning procedure is required to restore heat exchangers' performance periodically. A systematic cleaning scheduling strategy for the heat exchanger network in an oil refinery is proposed in this work. There are 11 operating heat exchangers in an oil refinery to be reviewed. Different cleaning decision scenarios based on the overall heat transfer coefficient are explored for optimal cleaning schedule performance. The daily number of exchangers available to be cleaned i.e., the unit cleanability, is investigated while minimizing the energy consumption and the additional heat requirement due to the offline heat exchanger under cleaning procedure. The HEN performance and the energy-saving from the cleaning procedures are benchmarked with the uncleaned HEN. The results indicate that the cleaning procedure significantly increases the HEN performance and simultaneously reduces the heat requirement if compared to the untreated HEN benchmark. The possible conflicting situation is discussed when some heat exchangers are waiting to be cleaned due to the unit cleanability restriction, which allows the overall heat transfer coefficient to be below the allowed limit. Therefore, nonconflicting cleaning scheduling is also addressed in this work by relaxing the unit cleanability limit. Furthermore, the optimal cleaning schedule is also suggested for user reference. In this work, the optimum cleaning schedule with minimum energy consumption and maximum energy saving could be achieved when cleaning decision limit is set at 40% decrease of overall heat transfer coefficient. In the contrast, the lowest number of cleaning procedures is associated with 90% decrease in the overall heat transfer coefficient as the cleaning decision limit.
Investigation of Water-Flooding Activity Using Radiotracer Technology in Commercial Core-Flood Set Up Noraishah Binti Othman; Ismail Mohd Saaid; Afaque Ahmed; Nazrul Hizam Yusof; Roslan Yahya; Mohd Amirul Syafiq Mohd Yunos; Engku Mohd Fahmi Engku Chik; Mohamad Rabaie Shari; Hearie Hassan; Airwan Affandi Mahmood
ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 20, No 1 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/ajche.51902

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An intervention of radiotracer technology in the EOR program has been initiated using commercial core-flood set up. A commercial type of Berea core is used throughout the experiment. 99mTc is chosen as a radioactive tracer for this experiment, which has a half-life of 6 hours and emits gamma rays’ energy of 0.104MeV. It is a liquid radiotracer with the activity of 10GBq (270mCi), eluted and prepared by Institute Cancer of Malaysia (IKN) before transporting it to the laboratory at Centre of Research in Enhanced Oil Recovery (COREOR), Universiti Teknologi Petronas. The experiment was conducted after 3.5 half-lives. Thus the activity has reduced to approximately (1.48GBq) 40mCi during injection inside the system. The results can be used to assist the reservoir engineer in determining the exact water-tracer breakthrough, localize the location of water-tracer concerning time, and determine the residence time distribution and mean residence time of the core flood where the hydrodynamics of the flow can be predicted. Moreover, the introduction of radiotracer inside the core flood rig can be translated as secondary oil recovery. The idea is to integrate radiotracer technology into the existing commercial core flood set up (FES350) to track the movement of fluid during water-flooding operation. Besides, it can be considered as the first interaction of radiotracer in the enhanced oil recovery application studies in Malaysia.
The Optimization of Natural Gas Utilization Network in Single Region Using Pinch Analysis Method Rendra Panca Anugraha; Annasit Annasit; Ali Altway; Juwari Juwari; Renanto Handogo
ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 20, No 1 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/ajche.51953

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Natural gas is one of the cleanest energy resources and may have potency to replace crude oil as main energy resource in several decades. There are some aspects which must be concern in the development of the natural gas industry including processing, storing, distributing and utilizing of the natural gas. The network of natural gas supply also should be generated to obtain the maximum natural gas recovery. However, it is difficult to determine the most suitable network system to connect the supply and demand of natural gas due to their different time scale, flowrate and capacity. There are some studies which investigating the network system to connect the supply and demand of natural gas but there are no systematical method in determination of the optimum natural gas network in single region supply-chain using pinch analysis. Therefore, in this study, a systematical method was developed to design natural gas network system in single region (East Java) using pinch analysis. The concept of natural gas cascade calculation was introduced. The heuristics of natural gas pairing between source and sink streams in grid diagram analysis was developed. Using 0-year time minimum difference give the amount of unutilized supply with value of 258.4 billion standard cubic feet (BCF) while 3-year time minimum difference give the amount of alternative and unutilized supply with value of 639.3 BCF and 897.7 BCF, respectively. The grid diagram heuristics developed in this study gives same results with the cascade calculation result.
Solketal Production by Glycerol Acetalization Using Amberlyst-15 Catalyst Hary Sulistyo; Edwin Nur Huda; Tri Sarifah Utami; Wahyudi Budi Sediawan; Suprihastuti Sri Rahayu; Muhammad Mufti Azis
ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 20, No 1 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/ajche.52455

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Glycerol, as a by-product of biodiesel production, has recently increased due to the rapid growth of the biodiesel industry. Glycerol utilization is needed to increase the added value of glycerol. Glycerol can be converted to solketal, which can be used as a green fuel additive to enhance an octane or cetane number. Conversion of glycerol to solketal was conducted via acetalization reaction with acetone using amberlyst-15 as the catalyst. The objective of present study was to investigate the effect of some operation conditions on glycerol conversion. Furthermore, it also aimed to develop a kinetic model of solketal synthesis with amberlyst-15 resins. The experiment was conducted in a batch reactor, equipped with cooling water, thermometer, stirrer, and a water bath. The variables that have been investigated in the present work were reaction temperature, reactants molar ratio, catalyst loading, and stirrer speed for 3 hours of reaction time. Temperatures, reactants molar ratio, and stirrer speed appeared to have a significant impact on glycerol conversion, where the higher values led to higher conversion. On the other hand, in the presence of catalyst, the increase of catalyst loading has a less significant impact on glycerol conversion. The results showed that the highest glycerol conversion was 68.75%, which was obtained at 333 K, the reactant’s molar ratio was  4, the amount of catalyst was 1 wt%, and stirrer speed of 500 rpm. Based on the pseudo-homogeneous kinetic model, the resulting kinetic model suitable for this glycerol capitalization. The value of parameters k and Ea were 1.6135 108 min-1 and 62.226 kJ mol-1,respectively. The simulation model generally fits the experimental data reasonably well in the temperature range of 313-333 K.
Evaluation of Spirulina platensis in Bicarbonate- Based Integrated Carbon Capture and Algae Production System utilizing different culture media Christelle Paula Cortez Batac; Nadeine San Juan Gathercole; Ana Katrina Fajardo Maravilla; Arnel Bas Beltran
ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 20, No 1 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/ajche.52762

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A method known as Bicarbonate-based Integrated Carbon Capture andAlgae Production System (BICCAPS), is a growing study introduced as an alternative to current carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) methods. It is a closed-loop cycle involving inorganic carbon in the form of bicarbonates, which is consumed by microalgae for growth and utilizes the regenerated carbonates for another cycle of carbon capture. Existing literature requires more in-depth experimentation and analysis with regards to the viability of different microorganisms to the rising method. Spirulina platensis was evaluated in BICCAPS using 0.1M Na2CO3, employing three different culture media for growth, namely, modified Zarrouk’s, NPK- based, and NPK- based with A5 solution media. Biomass growth, productivity, and carbon dioxide utilization were investigated to determine the effectivity of BICCAPS as a carbon sequestration technique. At control conditions, NPK-based with A5 solution medium yielded the highest productivity with a value of 10.81 mg L-1 day-1. Likewise, using NaHCO3 as a carbon source, results show that the highest productivity was achieved also under NPK- based with A5 solution medium with a value of 6.80 mg L-1 day-1, as well as a high carbon conversion value of 2.092 day-1.
Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Fluid Flow Behaviors in a Biomass Cyclone Burner Pasymi Pasymi; Yogi W Budhi; Yazid Bindar
ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 20, No 1 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/ajche.56708

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A combination of the experimental and numerical methods was used to investigate the fluid flow behaviors in a proposed cyclone burner. Recirculation flow and pressure drop, two of the important fluid flow behaviors that affect the burner's performance, have been studied here. Experimentally, the recirculation flow phenomenon in the burner was observed through paper slices dynamic in a transparent burner, and pressure drop was measured using a tube manometer. Meanwhile numerically, the fluid flow behaviors were simulated using the standard k-e turbulence model, under Ansys-Fluent software. The simulation results showed that, at a certain value of inlet aspect ratio (RIA) and initial tangential intensity (IIT), especially for high IIT, the recirculation flow phenomenon was clearly observed in the center of the burner cylinder which closely resembles a tornado-tail. The indication of existence recirculation flow was also found from the experiment results. The study also exhibited that the results of simulated static pressure drop were closely approaching the experiment results, particularly for IIT values £ 4.3. The mean deviation of static pressure between the simulation and the experiment results, for a varied range of RIA and IIT,was about 15%. From the results above, it was obvious that fluid flow behaviors (recirculation flow and static pressure) in the proposed cyclone burner are greatly influenced by the RIA and IIT values, where the IIT effect was more significant compared to the RIA. This study also suggests that, the standard k-e turbulence model could be relied upon to well predict the behaviors of fluid flow in the proposed cyclone burner, at low to moderate swirl intensities.
Kinetic Evaluation of the Inhibition of Acetylcholinesterase for use as a biosensor R. Bhuvanagayathri; David K Daniel; Gnanasundaram Nirmala
ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 20, No 1 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/ajche.56709

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The release of pesticides into the environment has increased, and there is a lack of monitoring of these contaminants. Since the conventional methods of monitoring these contaminants are complicated, costly and time-consuming, mechanisms based on acetylcholinesterase inhibition have emerged as simple and rapid tools for such applications. However, theacetylcholinesterase’s effectiveness as a sensing element in such biosensor systems depend­s on the conditions selected to measure acetylcholinesterase activity and the concentration of substrate or inhibitor, which in turn affect the reaction rates. Therefore, in the present work, the factors affecting the acetylcholinesterase activity were investigated and inhibition experiments were carried out to evaluate the kinetic parameters. The inhibition rate constant for acetylcholinesterase Ki was found to be 1.9 ppm. The kinetic parameter Km was found to be 3.8mM and Vmax was found to be 1.3µM/min from the Eadie-Hofstee plot. The kinetic study using Lineweaver-Burk method showed mixed type of inhibition of acetylcholinesterase with carbofuran.
Methanol Dehydration to Dimethyl Ether over Modified γ-Al2O3 with Acid, Base and Zeolite (NaA and NaX) Maria Ulfah; Hendra Suherman; Melia Laniwati; IGBN Makertihartha; Subagjo Subagjo
ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 20, No 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/ajche.51354

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The effect of acids, bases, zeolite NaA and zeolite NaX impregnation to g-Al2O3 on the catalyst characteristics and activity against methanol dehydration reaction were investigated. The catalyst characteristics include N2 physisorption, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and temperature-programmed desorption of ammonia (NH3-TPD) in addition to catalytic dehydration of methanol performed in a micro fixed-bed reactor at 270°C and 1 atm. The results of XRD characterization showed no changes related to the modification of alumina over acids, bases, and zeolite NaA and zeolite NaX. Therefore, the modification did not have any effect on the crystalline structure of alumina. The textural and surface acidity of g-Al2O3 changed post addition of acids, bases, zeolite NaA and zeolite NaX. NH3-TPD analysis results demonstrated that synthesized g-Al2O3 has three types of acid sites: weak, medium, and strong; however, the weak acid sites were not observed on alumina catalysts modified phosphate, KOH, zeolite NaA, and zeolite NaX. Furthermore, the concentration of strong acid sites increased in the catalyst containing KOH. The catalytic test results showed that the untreated g-Al2O3 catalyst gave prominent activity in dehydration of methanol compared to the treated catalyst following the number and strength of acid sites. 
Synthesis and Characterization of New Eco-Friendly Fire-Retardants Based on Soda-Silicate Glass Ngoc Nguyen Nguyen; Vinh The La; Thanh Xuan Le; Suong Thu Huynh
ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 20, No 2 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/ajche.53954

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Fire-retardants (FRs) are additives used to improve the fire-resistance of combustible materials. New generations of FRs must be effective and eco-friendly. Traditional inorganic FRs are non-hazardous but have limited fire-retardancy. Here, we aim to develop an innovative way to enhance the fire-retardancy of inorganic FRs. We synthesized a new type of FRs, called mATH, whose compositions are similar to soda-silicate glass (xNa2O.yK2O.zSiO2.tAl2O3). When applied to unsaturated polyester resin, mATH showed a much better performance than traditional aluminum trihydroxide (ATH). The better performance of mATH originated from its new working mechanism. Dehydrated mATH, as a soda-silicate glass, melts under the heat of the fire, which causes heat sink and produces a molten glass. The molten glass forms a charred insulating layer that prevents oxygen from contacting the interior combustible materials. This phenomenon significantly contributes to the fire-retarding behavior of mATH. Our findings open a new method for developing effective eco-friendly FRs.