Name : Safitri Ekawati

Class : 2C-D4 Teknologi Kimia Industri

State Polytechnic of Malang

FUNCTIONS AND USES

Uses of Sifter

A sifter also called a screener. Sifter is a device for separating

material based on the similarity and difference in a size, or
another meaning for separating wanted material from
unwanted material. For grading, the sifter controls both
oversize and undersize in our material.

For example, it is found in the kitchen, sifter is used to separate

dry ingredients such as flour. Sifter is also used to separate
stones from sand in the building project.

The Importance of Citric Acid

Citric acid is a substances with pH value less than 7. Citric acid can be found in many different
processed food and soft drink. Additionally citric acid in food
and drink because it is healthy, more cheap, and can add sour
flavor.

Citric acid is also used to household cleaners like bathroom,

can be used for detergent for wash the dirt white cloth. Another
reason for using citric acid is to make cosmetic like shampoo,
body wash or soap, face cleaners, nail polish and hand soap.

Citric acid helps the regeneration of skin tissue, helps the skin appear more youthful.

Uses of Hotplate

Hotplate is a device in laboratory for heating glassware

samples or its contents. Hotplate also contain a magnetic
stirrer, allowing the heated liquid to be stirred automatically.
The advantages using hotplate such as cheaper, effective, safe,
and portable device so it can move anywhere.

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Hotplate is a device that it easy to clean and maintaining as well, although care must be taken
against corrosion. Hotplate used electrical energy to haet this iron plate. We must keep the
cable from the iron hotplate because to prevent electric corsleting.

Uses of Litmus Paper

Litmus paper is a simple test, used to determine ehather solution is acid or base. Litmus paper
will change it is color in an acid or a base. There are two types
of litmus paper is to blue litmus paper, and red litmus paper.

Blue litmus paper stay in blue color in the presence of a base,

if blue litmus paper turn red color in the presence of an acid,
if red litmus paper turn blue color in the presence of a base
and if red litmus paper stay in red color in the present of acid
and the last if the paper turns purple, this indicates the pH is
near neutral.

Litmus paper is used to check for acidic or basic condition a gas or liquid, but litmus paper
only defines acid or base not tell the actual pH of the substance.

Uses of Condensor

For cooling vapour and condensing it into liquid we need condensor. A condensor is an
equipment that can be used to condense, to change substance
from gases to liquid by cooling it. Condensor can be applied
at various scales, from micro scale to process scale using
laboratory glassware.

Condensor come in many sizes ranging from rather small

(hand-held) to very large (industrial-scale units used in plant
processes). Condensers are used in air conditioning, industrial chemical processes such
as distillation,

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Writting Task

Present a written argument or a case to an educated reader with no specialist knowledge of the
following topic.

In the modern world, people consume more processed foods than ever before without the
health hazards.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Fisrt, I agree with the statement above. In my opinion, processed foods like a junk
foods. The ingredients of processed food contains are additive like monosodium glutamate
(MSG), synthetic flavoring and many other thing, it is can cause obesity and diabetes for us.

Food processing can be considered as a set of practices, to transform raw foods / food
ingredients into food ready for consumption. Some basic techniques of food processing are for
example drying, curing, smoking, fermentation, canning, pasteurisation, and freezing.
Processed foods are addictive and can cause you to over-eat. Whole foods are made up of
carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fiber and water.

A chemical preservative also used in processed foods, if it us eat and consume everyday
can cause any diseases in our body. For example kentucky fried chicken, sausages, burger,
spaghetti and etc. In processed foods also contains more glucose, more consume of glucose
(sugar) can cause store up to be body fat, which cause the body to gain weight.

But, there are many advantages of processed foods are more cheap, more fast, and more
longervity. For example freeze dried food, and frozen vegetable. Not all processed food is a
bad choice. Some foods need processing to make them safe, such as milk, which needs to be
pasteurised to remove harmful bacteria. But the disadvantages also so many. In processed foods
also contains saturated fats, it can very bad in our body and can cause heart problems and
increase cholesterol.

The process to make processed foods or junk foods will reduce the amount of vitamins
and minerals in fresh food before the process. So, quality of processed foods or junk foods are
less than fresh food.