PENGOLAHAN PLASTIK POLYSTYRENE DAN POLYPROPYLENE MENJADI LIQUID FUEL MENGGGUNAKAN KATALIS GAMMA ALUMINA (γ-Al2O3) DAN ZEOLIT TERAKTIVASI DALAM SINGLE STAGE SEPARATOR

Proses pirolisis sampah plastik merupakan proses dekomposisi senyawa organik yang terdapat dalam plastik melalui proses pemanasan dengan sedikit atau tanpa melibatkan oksigen. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan pengaruh jenis plastik yang digunakan, temperatur, dan jenis katalis terhadap produk hasil pirolisis. Pada penelitian ini jenis plastik yang digunakan berupa Polystyrene dan Polypropylene dengan variasi katalis Zeolit 20% serta Gamma Alumina 10%. Hasil analisa terbaik pada (% Yeild, densitas, viskositas, titik nyala, dan GC-MS) diperoleh pada penggunaan sampah plastik Polystyrene dengan katalis Gamma Alumina sedangkan analisa nilai kalor dengan hasil terbaik diperoleh pada sampah plastik Polypropylene dengan katalis Gamma Alumina.

Synthesis and characterization of mesoporous gamma-alumina by glucose as soft-template for molybdenum-99 adsorption: high and low molar ratio of water to aluminium isopropoxide effect

The mesoporous gamma-alumina is a good material for metal adsorption. Its textural properties are excellent, mainly for molybdenum-99 radioisotopes adsorption as part of 99Mo/99mTc generator in nuclear medicine. In this work, we have prepared mesoporous gamma-alumina by sol-gel treatment in the presence of glucose as a soft template. The molar ratio of reactant (water: aluminium isopropoxide(AIP)) was applied in the high and low ratios (150:1 and 25:1). The resulted mesoporous gamma-alumina was investigated using characterization analysis of X-ray diffraction, Nitrogen adsorption-desorption, and FTIR. The results indicate that the mesoporous gamma-alumina in the high molar ratio of water to AIP had a higher surface area and better crystallinity than the low molar ratio of reactants. Furthermore, in the Mo adsorption test, the mesoporous gamma-alumina with the high molar ratio posed a higher Mo adsorption capacity up to 55.69 mg Mo g−1 adsorbent. In the future, the molar ratio of reactants should be tuned in the range of around 150:1 to obtain the optimal Mo adsorption capacities of the resulted mesoporous gamma-alumina using the glucose template.

Phase and facet-engineering of transition alumina leads to (hydro)thermally stable alumina-supported metal catalysts

Inherent thermal instability of gamma-alumina above 800-900 ⁰C leads to deactivation of noble metal-supported alumina catalysts used in automotive applications. This is typically solved by adding toxic (barium) and/or rare-earth (lanthanum, cerium) elements. We show that facet-dependent engineering of transition-alumina leads to (hydro)thermally stable supported metal catalysts in the absence of toxic and rare-earth additives. Since pure high-surface area theta-alumina can be prepared at 1,050-1,100 ⁰C directly from gamma-alumina (or boehmite), and because of its stable major (100) facet with very low surface energy of 597 mJ/m2, we succeeded in preparing ~0.07 wt% Rh and ~3 wt% Pd catalysts active in NO reduction and hydrocarbon oxidation that survive hydrothermal aging up to 1,100 ⁰C with little-to-no deactivation.