Purification of used cooking oil using natural corn cob and carbon corn cob as adsorbent with batch operation

Abstract

Adsorption is one of the processes used to purify used cooking oil by using adsorbents from natural and carbonized corn cob as part of sustainability. The adsorption process is chosen because it is more economical, efficient, relatively affordable cost, and can be regenerated. This study was conducted in batches to observe changes in the quality of used cooking oil at certain time intervals and to determine the modeling of adsorption kinetics on natural corn cob and carbonized corn cob adsorbents. The sample of this study is 100 ml of used cooking oil with adsorbents in the form of natural corn cob and carbonized corn cob with a mass of 3 grams and a particle size of 70 mesh. This study’s best adsorption result is corn cob carbon adsorbent. This can be seen from the final turbidity value of 37.3 NTU compared to the natural corn cob adsorbent of 37.6 NTU. This study found that the adsorption process that occurs has chemical interactions as evidenced by second-order pseudo-modeling, which has a correlation coefficient close to one.