PENETAPAN KADAR ETANOL PADA ARAK JOWO YANG BEREDAR DI WILAYAH PONOROGO PADA BULAN JANUARI–MARET 2019 DENGAN METODE KROMATOGRAFI GAS

There are several cases related to the abuse of Arak Jowo liquor in Ponorogo Regency. Currently,
many people around that abuse by mixing liquor with various other types of drinks, to take lives.
Objective
: to
deter
mine the ethanol content in jowo wine. Sampling in this study using random sampling at the Ponorogo Police
Station.
Method
: Determination of ethanol content was carried out using the Gas Chromatography method with the
optimization results of initial temper
ature of 50oC then held for 5 minutes and increased the temperature of 200oC
with a final time of 25 minutes, injector temperature used 260oC and detector temperature of 300oC. The compound
used as an internal standard is n
-
propanol.
Results
:
T
he sample ob
tained from the Ponorogo Police Station
containing ethanol with the results of the determination of the ethanol content from a sampling of 3 bottles obtained
levels as much as 42.84%, 38.77% and 35.31%.
Conclusions and suggestions
:
Arak Jowo
contains a lar
ge amount
of ethanol. It is necessary to determine the levels of other compounds found in Arak Jowo that circulate in Ponorogo
Regency so that the percentage levels can be know