Gilang Aswardian – Ayu Apriyanti

27 Desember 2011

Undergraduate Program, Teknik Kimia, FT UGM

Judul Penelitian

            Hidration of α-terpineol from turpentine

Outline:

            Currently, Indonesia is still buying compounds terpineol from overseas and most are from China. If this compound is produced from original materials from Indonesia's natural resources, the need for one component of cancer therapy will be solved. Terpineol can be made from turpentine, which is non-timber forest products derived from pine trees.

Substantial part of forest resources is regularly tapped to produce oleo pine rosin that is processed later in a few factories located close to the tapping to produce gum rosin and turpentine, that containing alpha-pinene 80-82%, 10-12% 3-carene and the rest of camphene, beta-pinene & limonene

            This research is to study the synthesis of α-terpineol from turpentine by using reactive distillation. The main parameters studied such as effect of reflux ratio, feed rate and pressure.