Cynthia Dolores Aguila, Maybelle Alemani, Charity Tirazona ( March 2022 )
Philippine Science High School Western Visayas Campus – Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PSHS WVC), Brgy. Bito-on, Jaro, Iloilo City 5000, Philippines
ABSTRACT
This One-spot case study in a Completely Randomized Design determined the feasibility of carabao grass Axonopus compressus in papermaking. The papers were prepared in three different mixtures, i.e 35%-65%, 50%-50% and 65%-35% carabao grass Axonopus compressus fibers and old newspapers. Each treatment was composed of 500kg pulp, 12g of starch and 20g of powdered alum. The process involved pulping, sheet forming, bleaching and testing. The feasibility was determined through the samples’ breaking strenght, water resistance and market acceptability. The mean, the standard deviation and the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used as statistical tools.