Savitri, Emma and ., Sumarno and Roesyadi, Achmad (2015) Comparison of the Chitosan Degradation through Hydrothermal and Sonication-Hydrothermal Processes. Modern Applied Science, 9 (7). pp. 54-60. ISSN 1913-1844
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Abstract
Chitosan is a natural substance that has many applications in the fields of pharmacy and medicine. Because it has high molecular weight and does not dissolved easily in a neutral pH solution, then there is an effort to depolymerize chitosan into low molecular weight chitosan and oligomers. Nowdays, one of the methods used to degrade biomass is hydrothermal. Hydrotermal is one method of biomass degradation and polymers that is quite effective and environmentally friendly. Because chitosan has strong hydrogen bonds in addition to high molecular weight, it is necessary to treat chitosan by sonication before subjected to hydrothermal process. This study will compare degrading chitosan by only hydrothermal process and also sonication–hydrothermal processes. The hydrothermal of chitosan was carried out using a stainless steel tube reactor of 4-mL capacity at 200 °C for 4 s under pressures of 25 MPa for both of hydrothermal systems. For sonication– hydrothermal processes, chitosan was treated with sonication at 40 o C for 30 and 120 min before subjected to hydrothermal process. After hydrothermal, chitosan was characterized by viscosimetry and HPLC to determine molecular wight and also the dissolved product. Based on the product yield of the process, the sonication (40 °C,120 mins, 1 %)-hydrothermal process (200 °C, 4 mins) was the best process on this study and gave lactose yield as much as 90 %.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | degradation, chitosan, hydrothermal, sonication-hydrothermal, oligomers |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering > Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Emma Savitri 202034 |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2015 04:58 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2017 06:52 |
| URI: | http://repository.ubaya.ac.id/id/eprint/25547 |
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