PENGARUH KONSENTRASI PELARUT HCL PADA EKTRAKSI PEKTIN DARI KULIT PISANG AMBON

Pectin is a complex polysaccharides compound which is contained in plant cell walls. It is used in food manufacturing processes, coagulant for rubber industry and adsorbent for waste water treatment. Banana peel is one of the potential sources of pectin, because inside of banana peel contain pectin compound. Acid extraction process was used to decompose pectin compound which contained in banana peel. In this research, fifty grams of banana peel was reacted with hydrochloric acid using stirred tank reactor. This process was operated at temperature 80 0C for 1.5 hour in various solvent concentration (0.25N; 0.3N and 0.35N). The purpose of this research was to study the effect of solvent concentration in pectin extraction process. The result showed that the solvent concentration, the higher yield of pectin. The maximum yield of pectin which was obtained in this research is 67.55%. The Methoxyl contain and Galacturonic which was obtained in this research are 4.34% and 84.48%.