TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulation of a Vacuum Evaporator for Propolis Production
AU - Muharam, Y.
AU - Sahlan, M.
AU - Tiarrahman,
AU - Aletheia, S. P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia through the Hibah Publikasi Internasional Terindeks untuk Tugas Akhir Mahasiswa scheme No 2573/UN2.R3.1/HKP.05.00/2018.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/11/8
Y1 - 2019/11/8
N2 - Propolis is a matter produced by honey bees. Propolis production is carried out through extraction with ethanol and dilution with water. In order to increase the propolis purity, ethanol and water need to be removed in the final product by vacuum evaporation. The evaporation process that has been utilized so far has not been able to regenerate ethanol properly and the propolis production capacity is yet in small amounts, so an optimization of evaporation process needs to be performed to increase the propolis production. The purpose of this study is to obtain an optimum condition of a vacuum extraction for propolis production. The method used is the numerical simulation of the extraction process that has been modeled mathematically. The model consists of mass balance, energy balance and momentum balance. The simulation results for the evaporator of 0.35 m in diameter and 0.18 m in fluid height show that the optimum condition is at 343 K and 5×10-3 atm with the evaporation time being about 13 hours.
AB - Propolis is a matter produced by honey bees. Propolis production is carried out through extraction with ethanol and dilution with water. In order to increase the propolis purity, ethanol and water need to be removed in the final product by vacuum evaporation. The evaporation process that has been utilized so far has not been able to regenerate ethanol properly and the propolis production capacity is yet in small amounts, so an optimization of evaporation process needs to be performed to increase the propolis production. The purpose of this study is to obtain an optimum condition of a vacuum extraction for propolis production. The method used is the numerical simulation of the extraction process that has been modeled mathematically. The model consists of mass balance, energy balance and momentum balance. The simulation results for the evaporator of 0.35 m in diameter and 0.18 m in fluid height show that the optimum condition is at 343 K and 5×10-3 atm with the evaporation time being about 13 hours.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/1295/1/012013
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/1295/1/012013
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85075950382
VL - 1295
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
SN - 1742-6588
IS - 1
M1 - 012013
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Chemical and Material Engineering, ICCME 2018
Y2 - 19 September 2018 through 20 September 2018
ER -