ANALISIS ENERGI STRERILIZER DALAM PROSES PEREBUSAN KELAPA SAWIT DI PT PERKEBUNAN NUSANTARA 1 PKS TANJUNG SEUMANTOH

Abstract

Practical work in PKS Tanjung Seumantoh PT Perkebunan Nusantara I has been implemented. Palm oil plant (Elaeis guineensis Jacq) is a tropical plant belonging to the family palmae. The most important part to be processed from oil palm trees is its fruit. The palm fruit contains approximately 80% pericarp and 20% thin-coated, the pericarp level in the range of 34-40%. This practical work will discuss about the processing of palm fruit from beginning to end. In addition, the energy needed in the process of boiling the oil palm is analyzed on the sterilizer station. The processing of palm oil starts from the fruit receiving station, the sterilizer station, the threshing station, the fitting station, the purification station and the kernel seed processing station. The energy in the boiling process is calculated theoretically by using ideal gas thermodynamic equations. The result of observation data of total energy amount on sterilizer number VI is 178,04 kJ, whereas in sterilizer number I is 186,8 kJ.

Keywords : Practical work, Palm Fruit, Sterilizer, Thermodynamics, Energy.