| dc.description.abstract | ENDAH ANDARINI: Paper-Based Characteristics of Oil Palm Empty Fruit
Bunch and Waste Paper, supervised by AINUN ROHANAH and SAIPUL
BAHRI DAULAY.
Every year the need for paper continue to rise while the raw material from wood
have been harder to find, therefore and the alternative of raw materials would be
of plant fibers or fibrous waste such as empty fruit bunches of oil palm and paper
waste. This research was aimed to study the characteristics of paper made from
empty fruit bunch pulp and paper waste pulp. Therefore, a research had been
conducted in May-June 2013. The making of paper was done at Jl. Roso No. 8
Delitua and the testing of paper was done in PT PDM Indonesia Laboratory,
Medan North Sumatera using factorial randomized block design with one factor
i.e. waste paper composition (0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%). Parameters
observed were grammage, tensile and tearing strength. The results showed that
the composition of the waste paper had highly significant effect on grammage and
tensile strength. The resulting paper could be categorized as art paper with the
best results obtained from the composition of 40% (120 g of oil palm empty fruit
bunches and 80 g waste paper).
Keywords: oil palm empty fruit b | en_US |
