STUDI AWAL MENGENAI PEMBUATAN SURFAKTAN DARI AMPAS TEBU

Abstract

Many industries use surfactant as emulsifier, corrosion inhibition, defoaming, detergency, emuliency, and hair conditioning. Due to that fact, surfactant production from waste like bagasse will give high economical value. The use of waste can also reduce the environmental pollution. Bagasse can be used for producing surfactant because it contain lignin in relatively high percentage. Surfactant is produced from bagasse by cooking or reacting it with NaHSO3 solution. The purpose of this research was for gaining information about how the effect of NaHSO3 concentration and bagasse’s particel size to the yield of surfactant. From the research, it was known that yield of surfactant would be higher if using NaHSO3 solution at higher concentration and using smaller particel size. Yield of surfactant has a tendency to constant when concentration of NaHSO3 is above 25 % for each particel size.