Department of Chemical Engineering Institut Teknologi Bandung Indonesia
Abstract
The objective of this research was to obtain optimum condition in eugenol production from clove oil with response surface methods. Clove oil was founded from
essential oil cluster in Batang district Central Java. The eugenol was produced with saponification and neutralization process. Eugenol was obtained with vacuum
distillation. Eugenol concentration was analyzed with gas chromatography. In this research, the variable was studied are temperature and ratio of sodium hydroxide to
clove oil and yield of eugenol as response variable. So the results was obtain in minimum condition with yield of eugenol 39.17% at X 1 = -0,0109 and X 2 = 0.3095 with
determinant coefficient 0.764
