Bamboo waste containing lignocellulosic can be used to form furfural compounds. Furfural is an intermediate product widely needed by the chemical industry to manufacture finished products such as resins, disinfectants, lubricating oils, synthetic rubber, etc. This product can be produced from materials containing pentosan. This study aimed to determine the effect of the delignification process on pentosan levels, yield and characterization of the resulting furfural, and the potential of pentosan to become furfural compounds. In this study, the formation of furfural from bamboo waste was carried out using the acid hydrolysis method, with the independent variables namely cooking temperatures of 90 °C, 100 °C and 110 °C, H2SO4 concentrations of 5%, 10%, and 15% and cooking times of 60 minutes, 90 minutes, and 120 minutes. Based on the results of research that has been done, it is known that the delignification process influences the pentosan level, where the sample without delignification obtained a pentosan level of 11.10%, and using the delignification process obtained a pentosan level of 14.67%.
Characterization of furfural analysis results by color test showed a change in color to red and based on the results of GC-MS analysis at retention time 24.This is an open access article under the CC-BY-SA license.