Yoel Pasae, Nugraha Sutikno, Lyse Bulo, Eda Lolo Allo, Titus Tandiseno, Karel Tikupadang
The reactive separation process in the biodiesel industry is important to reduce the number of process steps so that the process becomes more economical. In this research, the Reactive Separation Process has been applied to carry out the process of transesterification reaction between vegetable oil and methanol which is excessively stoichiometric, while also carrying out the process of recovery of excess methanol from the reaction product. The parameter of the success of the Reactive Separation Process is in terms of the effectiveness of the process and the quality of waste cooking oil biodiesel produced using several types of catalysts. The stages of the process carried out consisted of refining used cooking oil, catalyst preparation, transesterification reaction, recovery of excess methanol, refining biodiesel, and testing the characteristics of biodiesel. Based on the acquisition of biodiesel and recovery of methanol produced from this research, it shows that the effective reactive separation process is used for biodiesel production; however some of the characteristics of biodiesel produced still need to be increased until all of them meet the standards set in the Indonesian National Standard. © 2006-2020 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN). All rights reserved.
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Paulus Christian University of Indonesia, Indonesia; Department of Chemistry, Faculty Mathematic and Natural Science, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia; Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Paulus Christian University of Indonesia, Indonesia; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Paulus Christian University of Indonesia, Indonesia
