PEMBUATAN SELULOSA ASETAT DARI PULP KENAF (Hibiscus cannabinus)

Abstract

Cellulose acetate (CA) is one of polymer which is usually used in industry. Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus) pulp is one of non wood cellulose sources which can be used for producing CA. CA was produced in three step i.e. initial, acetylation, and hydrolysis. The characterization of CA kenaf had been conducted with analyzing function groups and determining relative molecule mass, acetyl content, and structure of CA. The result of infrared spectroscopy analyze showed that specific peak of acetyl group at 1237.4 cm^-1 with acetyl content 40.40% and the relative molecule mass of CA was 1.15.10⁴ with amorf structure.