摘要
The objective of this research was to develop a catalyst for efficient cracking of palm oil to produce biogasoline. Mesoporous alumino-silicate, A1MCM-41, was synthesized by hydrothermal treatment to the mixture of sodium silicate, sodium aluminates, TMAOH （tetramethylammonium hydroxide）, and CTMAB （cetyltrimethylammonium bromide）, in Aquadest as a solvent. This process was carried out within 12 h of aging time at 100 ℃ in a teflon-lined stainless steel autoclave. The solid phase was filtered, then washed with distilled water, and dried in an oven at 80 ℃ for 24 h. The surfactant CTMAB was removed by calcination at 540 ℃ for 6 h using heating rate of 2 ℃/min. The as-synthesized and calcined powder was characterized by using FTIR （frontier transform infra red spectroscopy）, XRD （X-ray diffraction）, and TEM （transmission electron microscopy） methods. The product of AIMCM-41 was then converted into H-AIMCM-41 by ion exchanged in 0.5 M of NHaCI solution followed by filtration, drying at 80 ℃ for 24 h, and calcination at 540 ℃. The product of catalyst was used for catalytic conversion of PO （palm oil） to biogasoline in a fixed bed reactor at 200-400 ℃, under atmospheric pressure, and ratio of PO to catalyst was 200. The product of cracking was then distilled at 60 ℃ and analyzed using GC-MS （gas liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry） method. Result of the works shows that the catalyst had 4.49 nm of lattice parameter, and the cracking of PO gave 56.6% conversions with 29.4% selectivity to biogasoline like fraction.
