KINETIC STUDY ON HYDROTHERMAL COMPOSITION OF GLUCOSE IN NAOH SOLUTION WITH ZNO AS CATALYST

Hydrothermal liquifaction is a biomass conversion process, where the structure of the biomass is convert into liquid components under super critical conditions with a high temperature. In this study, glucose is used as biomass. The purpose of this study was to study the reaction kinetics and determine the hydrothermal decomposition of glucose in NaOH solution. This experiment used 10 grams of glucose and dissolve it in 80 mL of NaOH solution then put it in an autoclave. Experiments were carried out by varying the heating temperature carried out in an autoclave with a magnetic stirrer. After heating at various temperatures, the autoclave is immediately cooled down. The processed material is filtered to separate insoluble solids from the liquid phase. The solid residue that has been separated from the liquid phase is then dried in an oven at 105°C for 24 hours. The composition of the filtrate was analyzed using the GC-MS method and the glucose concentration was analyzed using the Lane Eynon method. Prior to GC-MS analysis, the filtrate was distilled at atmospheric pressure until a solid residue remained. The sample analyzed is the result of distillation with a temperature above 100°C to ensure that there is no water and residual glucose in the sample. The results of GC-MS analysis of product samples from the hydrothermal decomposition process had 3 peaks. The first peak shows the compound 1,3 Dipalmitin which has an area of 14.74%, the second peak shows the Olealdehyde compound which has an area of 32.35%, and the third peak shows the 1,2-Epoxyhexadecane compound which has an area of 52.91%. The kinetics results in hydrothermal decomposition of glucose in this experiment obtained a reaction order of 2 with an activation energy (Ea) of 15.91 KJ / mol and a pre-exponential factor of 66.12.