Heny Dewajani

27 Desember 2011

PhD Student, Chemical Engineering Department, Gadjah Mada University

Research title:

Catalytic Cracking Process of Vegetable Oil into Green-gasoline with Hydrogenation

Research outline :

            Biofuels is one form of renewable energy that are now developed in “Green Energy Programs”. One of the raw materials that can be used to produce biofuels are vegetable oils. Vegetable oils such as palm oil, coconut oil, castor oil and  nyamplung oil composed of triglycerides which are esters of glycerol and various fatty acids with the number of C atoms between 12-18. Long-chain hydrocarbon allows it to be used as bio fuel with the cracking process as it occurs in crude oil processing.  Catalytic cracking is the process of cracking long chain hydrocarbon molecules into smaller molecules with the aid of a catalyst

         In this study the cracking process performed in a flow reactor containing a catalyst with an  innovation process of catalyst is arranged in series expected  that the cracking process of hydrocarbon compounds can produce hydrocarbon compounds with shorter chain C₅-C₉ which have characteristics similar to gasoline fuel.