Pectin Extraction From Orange Peel With Microwave-Assisted Extraction Method as an Alternative Material in Polymer Injection

Abstract

The problems of degradation on oil production can be solved by chemical EOR (Enchanced Oil Recovery) methods, polymer injection is the one kind of chemical EOR methods. When the polymer fluids injected in to reservoir then it will be increase the oil sweep efficiency and fixed the mobility ratio of the injected fluids. The sample that will be tested in this experiments is biopolymer. Besides the xanthan gum that extracted by using bacterial, in side the plant contained a compound as know as paectin, it is a derived from the polysaccharide. So far the pectin was extracted and has been used in food industrial as a thickening agent and gelling agent, so in this experiments will be doing the pectin extraction and then do the analysis step that prospected as an alternative material in polymer injection method. The extraction method that used in this experiments is by using Microwave-Assisted Extraction (MAE) method from oranges peel waste. The purpose of this experiments is to knowing the pectin properness as a thickening agent as an alternative alternatife biopolymer material. The results of the FTIR test showed that there is compatibility of the function groups that formed the pection compounds.