IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF NANOCOMPOSITE BY UTILIZING USED BENTONITE FROM CPO INDUSTRY
The thing that can maintain the quality of food from the beginning of making it to the consumers is food packaging. Food packaging is one of the important aspects in the food industry. Plastic is the most commonly used material in food packaging. Plastic waste can cause severe environmental probl...
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| Language: | Indonesia |
| Online Access: | https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/48269 |
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| Institution: | Institut Teknologi Bandung |
| Language: | Indonesia |
| Summary: | The thing that can maintain the quality of food from the beginning of making it to
the consumers is food packaging. Food packaging is one of the important aspects in the
food industry. Plastic is the most commonly used material in food packaging. Plastic waste
can cause severe environmental problems. Biodegradable plastic is a suitable substitute for
conventional plastic, especially for food packaging used in the short term. PLA is a
promising solution because it has renewable, biodegradable, biocompatible, and good
thermomechanical properties.
However, the PLA has many disadvantages such as fragile structure and high gas
permeability. Addition of filler to PLA can improve the mechanical properties, barrier
properties, and biodegradation rate. The filler used is bentonite that used in CPO industry.
Bentonite has several uses, one of which is an adsorbent in refining of crude palm oil.
Before being used as a filler, bentonite must be regenerated to remove oil and impurities to
have properties such as before being used as an adsorbent. Bentonite extracted was given
NaOCl bleach and ODA surfactant.
PLA is synthesized using the ring opening polymerization method. The catalyst used
is Sn (Oct)2. Nanocomposites are made by mixing PLA and bentonite using an extruder.
The purpose of this study is to model the kinetics of PLA formation reaction and extruder
temperature control. The modeling of ring opening polymerization reaction in the batch
system produces PLA with a molecular weight of 193846 g/mol, not far from the results
of experiments that have been conducted. In addition, simulation of PLA formation
reactions by the direct polycondensation method produces PLA with 25.432 g/mol
molecules. Extrusion temperature control modeling that used servo case states that the
difference in extrusion temperature does not affect the time required to reach steady
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