Article
  • Hydrogenation of Liquid Natural Rubber Using 2,4,6-Trimethylbenzenesulfonylhydrazide: Optimisation of Reaction Parameters via Response Surface Methodology

  • Mohamad Shahrul Fizree Idris*, Hamizah Md Rasid*, Fazira Firdaus*, and Siti Fairus M. Yusoff*,**,†

  • *School of Chemical Sciences and Food Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
    **Polymer Research Center (PORCE), Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

  • 2,4,6-Trimethylbenzenesulfonylhydrazide를 이용한 액상 천연고무의 수소화: 반응표면분석법을 이용한 반응 매개변수 최적화
Abstract

Hydrogenation of liquid natural rubber (LNR) using 2,4,6-trimethylbenzenesulfonylhydrazide (MSH) in toluene was studied. HLNR structure was characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). Response surface methodology (RSM) based on 5-level-2-factor central composite rotatable design (CCRD) was used to analyze the correlative effects of reaction, MSH:LNR weight ratio (0.5-1.0) and reaction time (20-60 min) with a fixed reaction temperature of 100 ℃. Multivariate statistical analysis was developed in a form of quadratic model in order to correlate the reaction parameter to the response received. The optimum conditions derived via RSM were the MSH:LNR weight ratio of 0.7 and a reaction time of 25.86 min. The R2 value of 0.9557 showed that the model was well-fitted with the experimental data, whereby the model was almost ideal while the lack-of-fit considered rather unseemly (i.e. insignificant).


Keywords: response surface methodology (RSM), central composite rotatable design (CCRD), optimization, liquid natural rubber, hydrogenation

  • Polymer(Korea) 폴리머
  • Frequency : Bimonthly(odd)
    ISSN 0379-153X(Print)
    ISSN 2234-8077(Online)
    Abbr. Polym. Korea
  • 2023 Impact Factor : 0.4
  • Indexed in SCIE

This Article

  • 2018; 42(4): 544-550

    Published online Jul 25, 2018

  • 10.7317/pk.2018.42.4.544
  • Received on Sep 26, 2017
  • Revised on Feb 5, 2018
  • Accepted on Mar 20, 2018

Correspondence to

  • Siti Fairus M. Yusoff

  • *School of Chemical Sciences and Food Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
    **Polymer Research Center (PORCE), Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

  • E-mail: sitifairus@ukm.edu.my