01973nam a2200193 a 4500001001400000003000700014005001700021008004100038020002200079040000800101100003300109245013100142260002600273300005200299502009200351520129800443650001401741650002401755vtls000045131KUKTEM20251114204422.0100218t2009    my ao  f m    000 0 eng d  aTHE0004873(Local)  aUMP0 aMohd Amirul Syafiq Mohd Shah14aThe effects of bleaching on the properties of paper from oil palm frond (OPF) soda-aq pulp /cMohd Amirul Syafiq Bin Mohd Shah  aKuantan :bUMP,c2009  a50 p. :bill. (some col.) ;c30 cm. +e1 CD-ROM  aProject paper (Bachelor of Chemical Engineering) -- Universiti Malaysia Pahang – 20093 aMalaysia is the main producer and exporter of oil palm based product in this world. With the massive size of this industry, there is no doubt that it will generate a lot of biomass products  and until  today  these products haven’t been utilized  to  the fullest and one of these products is the oil palm frond (OPF). It has been proven from many researches that OPF has the potential to be made into papers but unfortunately the  brightness  achieved  didn’t  really  fulfill  the  requirements  for  it  to  be commercialized. So  in  this work,  the effects of bleaching on  the properties of paper from OPF Soda-AQ pulp are studied. The OPF pulp was bleached at different  time and  temperature and  the physical  and optical properties of  the papers made  form  it are  studied.  These  properties  are  then  compared  between  each  sample  and  some conclusions  were made.  It  appears  that  the  leached  pulp  produced  better  quality papers  compared  to  the  unbleached  pulp.  Longer  bleaching  time  and  higher temperature produced brighter papers  and  it achieves  the brightness  for news print. However,  the high  temperature seems  to deteriorate  the  fibers  in  the pulp when  the bleaching period is long hence producing papers with poor physical properties. 0aBleaching 0aBleaching materials