How To Turn Palm Oil Into Gasoline

TWO hatchback cars aka sedans without tails with full fuel tanks are ready to take the Kudus-Bandung route. Eight researchers from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) Center for Catalytic Engineering Team who were traveling in the car wanted to try out their homemade fuel on Wednesday, January 12. Bensa, the name of the fuel, comes from palm oil.

"There were no problems during the trip. It's like using fossil fuels," said Melia Laniwati Gunawan, one of the researchers, last Tuesday, January 18. Towards the city of Bandung, the fuel indicator light on the speedometer lights up. Not worried, the team pulled over to a public gas station in the toll road rest area to fill the tank with gasoline. There is no problem mixing bensa made from palm oil with gasoline derived from naphtha—heavy gasoline that is distilled from petroleum at a temperature of 70-140 degrees Celsius. "The one I used yesterday was a 93 gasoline," said Melia. Bensa 93 is a mixture of benzene which has an octane number (RON) of 105-112 with naphtha which has an RON of 70-80. They also carried out a vehicle test using the benzene with the Engineering Division of PT Pura Barutama in Kudus, Central Java, the day before. Bensa was tested on a motorcycle and a car. Gas research is included in the list of national strategic programs under the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. The lecturer at the Chemical Reaction and Catalysis Technology Expertise Group, Faculty of Industrial Technology, ITB, explained that the raw material for benzene is crude palm oil (CPO) which is processed into industrial palm oil (IVO)

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