REAKSI TRANSESTERIFIKASI MINYAK KACANG TANAH (Arahis hypogea. L) DAN METANOL DENGAN KATALIS KOH

Abstract

Oil and fat as part of lipid are taking an important role in food industry. There are soluble vitamins, like A, D, E and K, in oil and fat. Oil, that is a source of essential acid, is a high energy source. Oil and fat take a role to improve the shape and to give a taste. This experiment have been conducted to investigate the quantity of methyl ester that is produced from transesterification reactions of peanut seed oil with methanol using KOH as a catalyst and to analyze a kind of methyl ester that is produced using GCMS.

We got 68% v/v product of transesterification and we knew for kinds of methyl ester those were produced from GCMS. They are methyl palmitic, methyl linoleic, methyl stearic, dan methyl 12-hydroxil-9-octadecaenoic.