The Morphological and Pulping Indices of Bagasse, Elephant Grass (Leaves and Stalk), and Silk Cotton Fibers for Paper Production.

Keywords: Elephant Grass; fiber dimensions; non-wood materials; paper; pulping properties; Silk Cotton; ; ; ; ; ; EN Elephant Grass fiber dimensions non-wood materials paper pulping properties Silk Cotton ZH 9782 9790 9 11/21/22 20221220 NES 221220 Introduction Paper materials are diversely used globally for writing, printing, newspapers, books, boxes, wrapping, napkins, toiletries, among others. According to Lwako, Byaruhanga, and Baptist ([23]), non-wood materials such as fibers obtained from Silk Cotton have been anticipated to be suitable for pulp; nevertheless, some of its technological properties (i.e., fiber dimensions and pulping properties) for paper production are unknown. Fibers from the stalk of Elephant Grass (60.03 ± 1.82 µm) and Bagasse (59.85 ± 1.72 µm) would exhibit higher strength properties compared to Silk Cotton (52.24 ± 1.66 µm) and the leaves of Elephant Grass (42.15 ± 1.17 µm) due to their diameters (Table 1). [Extracted from the article]