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Synthesis of Surfactant Tert-Butyl Glycosides from Glucose and Tert-Butanol

Harsa Pawignya  -  Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia
Tutuk Djoko Kusworo  -  Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,Diponegoro University, Indonesia
*Bambang Pramudono  -  Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,Diponegoro University, Indonesia
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In Indonesia, a lot of discarded agricultural waste still contains cellulose (35-50%), the waste can still be hydrolyzed to glucose and then used as raw material in the manufacture of surfactants. Glucose can be reacted with tert-butanol using a para-toluene sulfonic acid catalyst to form tert-butyl glycoside surfactant. The purpose of this study was to study the process conditions influence the variable mole ratio, temperature, and catalyst percent on the yield of tert-butyl glycosides. The results showed that at mole ratio 1:5; temperature 70oC; and the percentage of catalyst 2.5 %, the yield obtained was 98.58 % with tert-butyl glycosides content of 61.2 %. Furthermore, the molecular structure of the surfactant was analyzed using FTIR while surface tension to determine the hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) value and obtained an HLB value of 4.61 Therefore, tert-butyl glycoside surfactant can be used as an emulsifier in the water-in-oil emulsion system.


Keywords: glucose; surfactant; tert-butanol; tert-butyl glycosides

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