Rancang Bangun Alat Pemisah Minyak dan Air pada Pengolahan CPO Berbasis Arduino

Abstract

Crude oil (cruide oil) which first goes through several processing stages. One of them is the speration process. At the initial stage, speration is carried out by flowing crude oil into a separator. Separator is a device designed to separate oil with suspended solids from water. In general, operating sperators utilize the differential gravity between oil and water. Oil has a lighter specific gravity than water. Therefore, with enough time, the mixture between oil and water will separate into two layers, namely the oil layer floating above the water layer. The separation process is controlled by adjusting the water level in the separator so that it does not exceed a specified limit. This limit prevents water from passing through the oil-containing gaps in the separator. From the description of the problems that have been described in the background, the author makes a formulation that can solve these problems, among others: 1. How to detect oil and water in the separotor tube 2. How to separate oil and water using a valve control system To be more focused on the problems that have been described, the authors make a limitation as follows: 1. Separator size that will be designed miniature scale. 2. Separator is used as a processing tool for separating oil and water.