Chemistry and Structure Characterization of Bamboo Pulp with Formacell Pulping

Abstract

Bamboo is one of the non-wood materials which can be utilized as raw materials of pulp. The purpose of this work was to study the effect of the ratio of acetic acid:formic acid on the chemical properties of pulp from bamboo. The results of the study showed that increases of the ratio of formic acid able to degraded of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin content and decreases the pulp yield. The best condition of this research showed on the ratio of acetic acid: formic acid = 90:10. This condition produced the pulp with composition consist are cellulose 66,98%, hemicelluloses 16,83%, and lignin 3,59%, with the yield of pulp is 42,279%