Authors:
M. K. Afdhol
1
;
F. Hidayat
2
;
M. Abdurrahman
1
;
H. Z. Lubis
3
;
R. K. Wijaya
1
and
N. P. Sari
3
Affiliations:
1
Department of Petroleum Engineering, Faculty of Engineering , Universitas Islam Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
;
2
Department of Petroleum Engineering, Faculty of Engineering , Universitas Islam Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia.
;
3
Department of Chemical Engineering, Institut Teknologi Medan, Jl. Gedung Arca No.52, Medan, Sumatera Utara,
Keyword(s):
Agricultural Waste, Bioethanol, Solvent, Wax Paraffin.
Abstract:
Crude oil is a chemical compound of saturated paraffin wax, aromatics, napthane, asphaltic, and resins indeed
this material produce wax deposits. Deposition of paraffin has potential to harmful the production due to the
existence of blockages, whether partial or the whole of the pipeline. Various techniques have been developed
to overcome this problem; one of them is the use of solvents from agriculture waste. Incidentally, the materials
are easy to obtained and economical. Based on the Central Bureau of Statistics data, the agricultural waste in
Indonesia recorded 5,883,730 tons/year for corn waste, 439,657 tons/year for pineapple skin waste, and 15.8
tons/year for rice husk waste. The potential of agricultural waste can be used as a source of raw materials for
manufacturing solvents by using bioethanol by ways of pretreatment, hydrolysis, fermentation, and distillation
process. In addition, the result of several past studies shows that bioethanol made from pineapple skin pr
oduce
8% of ethanol; bioethanol from corncobs produce 19-22% of ethanol; and bioethanol from rice husk produce
14.4227% of ethanol. Therefore, it means that agricultural waste can be used as a source of bioethanol in
manufacture of solvent and could overcome the problem of paraffin wax.
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