Hidrolisis Furfural dari Tandan Kosong Sawit

Furfural is one of the furan derivative are widely used as solvents in the extraction of lubricants oil from natural oil. The purpose of this research are hydrolysis of furfural from empty fruit bunch palm. Empty bunch palm was firstly cleaned, crushed, and grinded. It was then hydrolyzed with the addition of sulfuric acid H2SO4, and dehydrated before cyclizativy. Various of H2SO4 consentration that used for hydrolysis are 5% and 7,5% with reaction time 2,3 and 3,5 hours. The optimum result of this research was abtain 27,49% of furfural by hydrolisis with H2SO4 7,5% and reaction time 3 hours