APEC Youth Scientist Journal

Research Article Review Sheet

Criteria Chemistry
THE POTENTION OF SUWEG Amorphophallus campanulatus
Title PHYTOETHANOL AS THE ADDITIVE SUBSTANCE FOR SAVING
GASOLINE
Authors Iqbal Muhammad

Review Criteria
1) Research subject have scientific originality.
2) Research purpose, subject and contents are correctly stated.
3) Proper research methods are used for the research subject.
4) Literature survey or theoretical discussion refers to proper subjects related to the
research subject.
5) Author presents his/her opinion and research result with clear classification.
6) Research results have proper conclusion and not too much generalized.

Comments
1. Blending ethanol with gasoline to enhance is not new work, but generally used in fuel
industry as you can see in the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_ethanol_fuel_mixtures#E10_or_less
If this work can be valuable, the yield of phytoethanol from SUWEG is much higher than
other bioethanol sources at least. And, this paper is not containing this comparison.
2. (1) When abbreviated form is written first, it must be clarified its full name. (e.g. MTBE,
TEL, etc.)
(2) There is no qualitative analysis of relation between the amount of starch SUWEG has
and abstracted phytoethanol. No statistical analysis of the collected data.
4. There is no in-text citation to back up the authors statement, so it cant be reliable.
5. The methodology for checking out the efficiency of blended fuel and pure gasoline is not
proper for qualitative measure. Selecting a toy-ship as a method for calculating fuel
efficiency is not proper. More delicate scientific methodology must be used.

Result Publication as original

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