Nur Widiarto Setiaji

27 Desember 2011

Undergraduate Student, Chemical Engineering Department, UGM

Judul Penelitian

            Recovery of Catalyst of a α-pinene Hidration Process

Outline:

            α-terpineol is a compound that can be used pharmaceutical and medical purpose, such as for industrial soaps, perfumes, natural disinfectant etc.

The synthesis process of α-terpineol begins of hydration of α-pinene with acid catalyst to produce terpene hydrate, known as pine oil, then continues to the dehydration process to produce α-terpineol. In this process chloroasetic acid can be used as a catalyst. At the end of the hydration reaction of α-pinene into α-terpineol, chloroasetic acid was mixed with pinene and soluble in water. For the rest of chloroasetic acid can be recoverd by crystallization. In this research, the phenomenon of chloroacetic acid crystallization process will be studied.