Used cooking oil has become a business area. The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) mobilizes residents to look for business opportunities in the midst of the outbreak. Among them are using leftover cooking oil or what is commonly referred to as used cooking oil.
Used cooking oil can indeed be a way out for residents to use as raw material for commercial biodiesel fuel production.
Hudha Wijayanto, sub-coordinator of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources in the bioenergy technology sector, said two special concepts must be met in the production of used cooking oil as biodiesel raw material.
First, the quality of the remaining vegetable oil must meet the detailed biodiesel standards. Second, it has a high economic value and can be applied.
“If biodiesel can fulfill the two concepts, it is the result of processing waste, therefore the power of boiling waste of 3 million kiloliters per year can meet 32% of the national biodiesel needs,” said Hudha in his recorded info www.rancakmedia.com, Sunday (18/18). /4/2022).
On the same occasion, Ricky Amukti, Head of the Engagement Unit of Traction Energy Asia, explained that the presence of used cooking oil as biodiesel fuel has a positive impact on the environment and health.
“The used cooking oil that is discarded carelessly has a direct effect on the environment. When it collects in the gutter, it smells bad and the sewer water becomes dirty. If the soil is absorbed, the quality of the soil will decrease,” he said.
Ricky added that the use of biodiesel made from used cooking oil would reduce the amount of carbon emissions. Based on research from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), biodiesel itself has the potential to reduce 91.7% of carbon emissions compared to diesel.
“When we use waste, we don’t have to exchange forests for oil palm plantations which have the potential to increase carbon emissions,” he said.
Witnessed from its chemical formation, used cooking oil contains carcinogenic compounds that occur during the frying process. The use of cooking oil can pose a risk to human health and cause cancer. In addition, it reduces the intelligence of the younger generation.
Therefore, it must be handled properly so that used cooking oil is useful and not harmful to human health and the environment. For this reason, three students from Yogyakarta University of Gajah Mada (UGM) increased biogasoline from residual cooking oil. This biogas can be proven to be able to start a motorcycle engine.
The third, Abdul Afif Almuflih and Khoir Eko Pamudi from the Department of Chemistry, FMIPA and Endri Geovani from the Institute of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture. They have successfully won four international awards from research on increasing biogasoline from residual vegetable oil (Jeco gasoline).
