PENGARUH SUHU DAN KATALIS CaO PADA SINTESA SURFAKTAN METIL ESTER SULFONAT BERBASIS CRUDE PALM OIL DENGAN AGEN SULFONASI NaHSO3

Indonesia is a country that has the potential of natural resources that is extraordinary , both natural resources and non-biological. One of the plants that humans used to develop natural resources and human resources is palm oil. Oil derived from palm oil one of which is crude palm oil (CPO). CPO production of Indonesia increased every year but the selling price of CPO is low. Processing CPO become downstream products is required in order to increase the value of the CPO. One of the efforts to increase the selling value of the CPO is by converting CPO into surfactant Methyl Ester Sulfonate (MES). Conversion of CPO into MES begins with the process of Esterification and Transesterification by reacting methanol with CPO to produce methyl ester. Methyl ester is sulfonated using sulfonating agent NaHSO3, Methanolysis by methanol. Neutralized using NaOH, and dried to remove residual methanol and water. The temperature reaction on the process of sulfonation is varied to know the influence of it on the quality of the resulting MES. Temperature ranges that used are 80 -