After Cars, Now Turn to Student of SMK Create a Premium Fuel

Creativity vocational high school students (SMK) seems to have no end. Having succeeded in making cars, student of SMK are now making premium gasoline fuel derived from waste. Students who make premium fuel from plastic is students Vocational School District 3 City of Madiun, East Java. The supervisor claimed although the results have been successfully tested on a new water pump vacuum.

To create a premium, the students collect plastic waste around the school. Trash and then burned in a tube with a high temperature. Arising from the heating steam in the tube and then distilled into a two-story tube that has been assembled in such a way. Within no less than 20 minutes, the droplets of steam distillation and sublimation process will fall by itself. 

Droplets of sublimation vapor in the tube to the top two or tube that will be processed again become a premium. How, through the separation process with a detergent water solution. The goal is to separate the pure premium gasoline with dirt residue. Premium which has a specific gravity lighter quickly rose to the surface, and the dirt settles with detergent water solution. Sewage sludge mixed with water was then removed to leave only premium gasoline. The way it is repeated up to three times to produce premium gasoline equal or close to production quality of PT Pertamina.

After that, premium gasoline processed the students added suitable additives such as the size of a regular premium purchased at the pump community. Tri Handoko, a teacher at the school, said to get a liter of premium required at least one kilogram of waste plastic clean.

Sure you can imagine, if the government can take advantage of plastic waste known to be very difficult to disentangle and harm the environment, can be processed into premium gasoline is very beneficial for the community. If developed, a plastic gasoline is expected to be a reference to the government not to raise the price of premium.

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