Smart Sensor Based Distillation For Fractionating Citronella Oil: Current Research Challenges

EasyChair Preprint 2012

Abstract

Citronella oil is one of the essential oils derived from the leaves and stem of lemongrass (Cymbopogon nardus). At present, most of the lemongrass oil industry in Indonesia is still in the form of upstream industries which only provide crude purified oils with low purity for export with a fairly low sales value. Technology in improving the purity of citronella oil needs innovation in following the development of the industrial revolution 4.0. This article presents an overview of the research opportunities in the development of distillation for fractionating citronella oil referring to automatically of optimization processes in the vacuum fractional distillation accompanied by inspect the quality of essential oil isolation where run in the line process based on smart sensors integrated in a computer program. The combination technique of quality control of essential oils in line process system which combined with the optimization technique of the vacuum fractional distillation process has not been studied by advanced researchers. Therefore, this study has a state of the art in process engineering and smart sensor-based quality control systems that can be developed for strengthen the Indonesian citronella oil industry.

Keyphrases: Citronella oil, fractional distillation, smart sensor

@booklet{EasyChair:2012,
  author    = {Dedi Wahyudi and Erliza Noor and Dwi Setyaningsih and Taufik Djatna and Irmansyah},
  title     = {Smart Sensor Based Distillation For Fractionating Citronella Oil: Current Research Challenges},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 2012},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2019}}