Furfural production from coconut shell

Date

10-1991

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Chemistry

College

College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Aloysius U. Baes

Abstract

The conditions for the optimum production of furfural from air-dried coconut shell was studied. The optimum furfural yield of 11.14 percent by weight was obtained when coconut shell, with fineness passing a U.S. standard 100-mesh sleeve, when first treated with dilute alkali before acid hydrolysis using 7 ml of 3.42 N (9.5 percent v/v) sulfuric acid per gram of powdered coconut shell. The hydrolysis temperature was 145 ± 5 C for a period of 371 minutes.

Yields obtained from this study were comparably higher than the results obtained by Aliwalas et al. (1966) - the only other study on furfural production from coconut shell.

Furfural concentration was evaluated using the absorbance at 273.6 nm of the chloroform extract and determining the furfural from a standard plot.

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

Thesis

Document Type

Thesis

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