Chemical and fibre properties by lemon grass in chemical pulping for pulp industry

Zawawi Daud, Husnul Azan Tajarudin, Nair Gomesh, Ragunathan Santiagoo, Halizah Awang, Mohd Zainuri Mohd Hatta, Mohd Arif Rosli, Amir Detho*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Malaysia has a high rate of depleting forest activities than any other tropical countries in the world. This lead to an increasing of pollution and loss of forest trees include animal to our nature. Lemon grasses as a substitute material from non-wood material had been choose for pulp and papermaking industry. This study was going through the chemical composition analysis and fibre properties for lemon grass pulp. These conclude that lemon grass had a high percentage of cellulose; with a low lignin content; good fibre length by TAPPI method. Thus, lemon grass has a potential to be alternative material for becoming waste-wealth product especially for Malaysia’s pulp and papermaking industry.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012080
JournalIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Volume616
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Conference on Green Environmental Engineering and Technology 2020, IConGEET 2020 - Seoul, Virtual, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 23 Jul 202024 Jul 2020

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