Influence of 1,4-Dioxane in Enzymatic Process for biodiesel production using crude palm oil (CPO) as substrate

Abstract

Nowadays, mass biodiesel production usually using chemical reaction method. However, since last decade there are many biodiesel researches using enzymatic method, In this enzymatic process, esterification and transesterification can happen concurrently_ Besides, there are many advantages using enzymatic method compared to chemical method. As lndonesia is being on of the largest producers of Crude palm Oil (CpO) in the world, producing renewable energy bases on plant oil is a huge potential for this country. In this report! we show the effort to increase the yield of biodiesel prcduction using enzymatic process with cPo was raw material by using emursifier. we have demonstrated biodiesel (FAME) production by enzymatic process using pseudomorms cepacia lipase and Crude Palm Oil (CPO) as substrate. tn this experiment, the yield of biodiesel was still very low. Introducing of 1,4-dioxane as emulsifier in producing biodiesel using cpo as substrate did not affected significantly on the yield ofbiodiesel.