Judul: Pengaruh Proses Bleaching dan Netralisasi terhadap Karakteristik Surfaktan Metil Ester Sulfonat dari Metil Ester CPO (Crude Palm Oil)
Abstrak: Surfactant is surface active agent that has ability to reduce surface and inter-facial tension. Based on its ability, surfactant is used almost in all sectors of industries. It can be synthesized from petroleum, microorganism, and vegetable oil. Based on the hydrophilic part, it is divided into four groups: cationic, anionic, non-ionic, and amphoteric. Anionic surfactant is the most produced compared to other groups. Methyl Ester Sulfonates (MES) is the anionic surfactant made from vegetable oil that is now being developed. MES has the similar, or even better, than Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonates that is now the most produced anionic surfactant synthesized from petroleum. MES production in this research use CPO (Crude Palm Oil) as raw material to give added value for CPO as main commodity in Indonesia. These research methods were divided into some steps: (1) analysis of physical-chemical characteristics of CPO (2) production and analysis of methyl ester of CPO (3) sulfonation process of methyl ester of CPO using SO3 with temperature of 1000C by STFR (Single Tube Falling Film Reactor) and (4) analysis of MES surfactant. The purpose of this research is to find the effect of bleaching and neutralizing processes to the characteristics of Methyl Ester Sulfonates produced from methyl ester CPO. This research used factorial completely randomized design with two replications. The treatment used is process step with no bleaching-neutralizing step, with neutralizing step, and with bleachingneutralizing step. MES produced has inter-facial tension value from 1.4 x 10-2 to 1.4 x 10-1 mN/m, surface tension from 35.33 to 47.17 dyne/cm, active matter content from 15.32 to 19.10 %, iodine value from 53.38 to 55.44 mg Iod/mg MES, CMC from 2.6-3.5% and pH 3.08-6.84. Based on statistic test, the process steps significantly affect inter-facial tension value, surface tension, active matter, and pH but not to iodine value. The best process step found in the sulfonating which continued with neutralizing process based on some parameters. Parameters used were lowest inter-facial tension and surface tension, highest active matters content, and most neutral pH. In this best process, physical-chemical characteristics obtained: inter-facial tension of 0.0201 mN/m, surface tension of 37.30 dyne/cm, iodine value of 55.02 mg I2/g MES, active matter content of 19.10 %, CMC of 2.5% and pH of 6.16.
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Judul: Kinerja dan Karakteristik Asam Metil Ester Sulfonat dari Metil Ester Crude Palm Oil pada Beberapa Periode Sampling
Abstrak: Methyl Ester Sulphonic Acid (MESA) is a chemical compound that has ability as a surface active agent (surfactant). Surfactant can decrease the surface tension and interfacial tension, so it has been used as adhesives, agent for puffing, wetting, and forming the emulsion. It also has been applied in various fields such as food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, agriculture, paint, paper, and mining (as oil well stimulation agent in enhanced oil recovery process). MESA is synthesized through sulfonation of methyl ester. Methyl ester is obtained by esterification-transesterification of triglycerides (oil). If the next process like bleaching and neutralization have been done, the MESA will be converted to MES (Methyl Ester Sulphonate) that known as commercial product. MES has a good detergency (even if it is used in hard water) and good tolerance to the presence of calcium. MES is derived from renewable raw materials that based on oil /fat. One source of oil that can be used is palm oil. This research used Crude Palm Oil (CPO). This raw material is potential to be developed as surfactant because of its supply availability and the suitability of its fatty acid composition. Based on the Foreign Agricultural Service (2009), Indonesia's CPO production increased from 9.1 million tons (year 2002) to 17.82 tons (2008). In the next year, it even reached 20.2 million tons (Department of Industry, 2009). Beside that, based on the fatty acid composition, CPO methyl esters consisted of 46% palmitic acid as C16 carbon chain source and also 3.6% stearic acid, 39% oleic acid, 11% linoleic acid, and 1.5% linolenic acid as C18 carbon chain source (Ketaren, 2005). According to Watkins (2001), MES C16 showed the best detergency, then followed by C18 and C14. Therefore, the MES from vegetable oils containing C16-18 carbon atoms is used for detergent powder and liquid detergents (heavy duty detergent). The main process of MES synthesis was the sulfonation to produce MESA, an addition of sulfonation reactant to make sulfonate group on the methyl ester’s hydrocarbon chain. Sulfonation reactant could be H2SO4, NH2SO3H, H2SO4.nH2O, or which was used in this research, SO3/dry air. SO3/dry air is highly reactive, suitable for continuous production, and can form a sulfonate group optimally. The sulfonation in this research used a Single Tube Falling Film Reactor (STFR) 6 meters in length and 4 liters organic material feed capacity. The temperature of reaction was 100oC with mole ratio of reactants 1:1,3 between methyl ester and SO3. The purpose of this research was to determine the sulfonation period that can produce MESA CPO with the stable performance and characteristics. This research was conducted by complete randomized experimental design with a single factor. The factor studied was sampling period, from 10 minutes up to 100 minutes sulfonation with sampling interval 10 minutes. The synthesized MESA had density value 0.9416-0.9915 gram/cm3, viscosity value 30-102.5 cP, pH 2.98-3.33, and 13.97-21.05% active ingredients.
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Judul: Penyebab kematian burung kakatua jambul kuning (Cacatua galerita) di Taman Margasatwa Ragunan dan Taman Burung TMII (Periode Januari 2001 - Januari 2002)
Abstrak: Studi kasus ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui penyebab kematian pada Burung Kakatua Jambul Kuning (Cacatua galerita) serta penanganan dan pencegahannya. Pengkajian ini berdasarkan pada pemeriksaan atau pengamatan langsung di lokasi kandang burung maupun lingkungannya, pengumpulan laporan data kasus penyakit, pengobatan dan pencegahannya, wawancara langsung dengan dokter hewan, paramedis maupun pemeriksaan feces serta studi pustaka. Upaya perlindungan terhadap burung Kakatua Jambul Kuning yang merupakan satwa langka sudah dilakukan oleh Pemerintah., terbukti dengan diterbitkannya Undang-Undang No. 5 tahun 1990, Surat Keputusan Menteri No.301/Kpts-II/1991, Peraturan Pemerintah Republik Indonesia No. 7 tahun 1999 (Sozer, 1999). Perlindungan yang selama ini telah dilakukan di penangkaran ex-situ Taman Margasatwa Ragunan (TMR) dan Taman Burung TMII (TB TMII). Pada kedua tempat penangkaran tersebut burung kakatua akan dipelihara sedapat mungkin seperti pada kehidupan di alam bebas. Hasil yang diperoleh pada kedua tempat penangkaran tersebut menunjukkan bahwa kasus traumatik merupakan kasus penyebab kematian yang tertinggi. Traumatik tersebut disebabkan beberapa hal dan yang tertinggi karena berkelahi. Di Kandang Karantina Taman Margasatwa Ragunan dilaporkan ada 3 kasus kematian traumatik dari 7 gambaran post mortem yang diperiksa (42,86%), sedangkan pada Kandang Pamer berjumlah 2 kasus dari 3 gambaran post mortem yang diperiksa (66,67%). Pada Taman Burung TMII kasus kematian yang disebabkan oleh traumatik, ditemukan di Klinik yang berasal dari Kandang Pamer sebanyak 2 kasus dari 3 gambaran post mortemnya (66,67%). Studi kasus ini diharapkan menjadi tambahan data acuan dalam upaya pelestarian dan pengembangan populasi Kakatua Jambul Kuning.
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