ABSTRACT

ETANOL PRODUCTION PROCESS SIMULATION FROM

MOLASSES THROUGH SEVERAL ALTERNATIVE
PRODUCTION PROCESS CONFIGURATIONS
Name : 1. NILA GAMAYANTI (2307 100 512)
2. MARDIANTI SUSANTRIS (2307 100 528)
Faculty : FTI – ITS Chemical Engineering
Mentor : Ir. Musfil A. S. M. Eng, Sc.

Abstract
Ethanol or known as etil alcohol is an organic compaund consist of carbon,
hydrogen, ocsigen with molecul formula CH3CH2OH and was a hydrocarbon compaund with
hydrocsil cluster so it can be dioxided or esterificated. Ethanol is the most common alcohol
used in daily life, cause of it’s habit that unpoison, this ingrident often used as a solvent in
farmacy world and food and drink industries. Ethanol colourless dan tasteless but it has
characteristic scent. Ethanol used in true form or as a mixture for gasolin or even hydrogen.
Ethanol interaction with hydrogen can be used for fuel cell energi source or for conventional
internal combustion engine.
This research purpose to count maximum yield can be reach from several process
alternative. There are few steps done in this research, such as gathering and processing data,
simulating the data gathered into Super Pro 4.55 software, and if the result come close to
recieved result data, then the configuration process can be started, after that counting the
result of etanol yield and the energy gain.
The validation gets from the simulation shows an output come close to literature
data, which is producing ethanol 550.21535 kg/hour, the simulation result 545.00296
kg/hour. Super Pro 4.55 can be applied to evaluating, analyzing, also optimizing
biotechnology design process. The best configurations result achieved was the third
configuration with ethanol gain 609.4816 kg/hour with yield 0.503 . The result in adding
GAC Adsorption tolls to increase ethanol quality into the third configuration was: 605.6896
kg/hour. Meanwhile the concentration gained was 99.6%, with the minimal energy gain was
3398.19234 kcal /kg etanol for the second configuration.

Keywords : Ethanol, Molasses, Super Pro, Configuration, Yield, Energy