Soda Anthraquinone Pulping of Sudanese Oxytenanthera Abyssinica (Bamboo)

Pulping of with soda and soda anthraquionone was designed to investigate the applicability these methods for the Oxytenanthera abyssinica, bamboo stalks cooking trails, and to examine the effect a crude extract of Senna obtusifolia as source for anthraquinone. The chemical components of the Oxytenanthera abyssinica were carried out with high pentosans 18.3%, Kurchner-Hoffer cellulose 48.7% and lignin 29.0%. The cooking conditions were applied to compare the soda and soda anthraquinone with high screened yield 61.3% low Kappa number 25.0 and good pulp properties suitable for different types of end products of paper. When application of crude extract of Senna obtusifolia as source for anthraquinone during cooking gave results more than those of soda but less than those of soda with anthraquinone. The purification of the crude extract will result in better utilization and application of these extracts.