PRODUCTION OF PALM KERNEL OIL DERIVATIVES FOR POLYMER INTERMEDIATES : MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF DODECYLAMINE PRODUCTION FROM PKO
Indonesia’s palm oil is a major commodity in the world market share and will be projected to increase every year. Nevertheless, domestic consumption in Indonesia of palm oil only accounted for 30% of total production. Meanwhile, research on the processing of palm oil derivative products such as Palm...
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Format: | Final Project |
Language: | Indonesia |
Online Access: | https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/48304 |
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Language: | Indonesia |
Summary: | Indonesia’s palm oil is a major commodity in the world market share and will be projected to increase every year. Nevertheless, domestic consumption in Indonesia of palm oil only accounted for 30% of total production. Meanwhile, research on the processing of palm oil derivative products such as Palm Kernel Oil (PKO) being developed into renewable chemicals that can replace petroleum. One of chemicals that can be produced from PKO is dodecylamine which is an intermediates for nylon1212 polymer. Dodecylamine can be synthesized through dodecanol amination under dodecane as solvent. This study aims to obtain a kinetic model of the synthesis of dodecane solvents through the lauric acid deoxygenation reaction using a Pd/C catalyst. Modeling is done by optimizing the kinetic parameters using MATLAB software with variations in the form of competitive and dissociative adsorption behavior of hydrogen on the surface of the catalyst. In addition, the simulation of the dodecane to dodecylamine amination reaction was simulated using the reaction kinetics model from the literature. The modeling results show that the most suitable kinetic model for the lauric acid deoxygenation reaction in both hydrogen and inert conditions is the non-competitive and non-dissociative hydrogen adsorption model with an objective function value of 680.04. The main product resulting from the lauric acid deoxygenation reaction under hydrogen-rich conditions is undecane, with a selectivity of 99.1%. In addition, the simulation results show that the use of Ru/C catalysts for the dodecane amination reaction will result in higher selectivity compared to the use of Co/Al2O3 catalysts. |
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