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The project Wood Life: Energy-efficient living spaces through the use of wooden interior elements received funding for four years from the Aalto Energy Efficiency Research Programme in spring 2013. The …
Year: 2013
Authors:Wood-plastic composite is an excellent example of a constantly evolving and developing way of thought. The material is environmentally friendly, sustainable and efficient. The most current issue is to extend …
Year: 2013
Authors:Wood based panels are commonly produced hot pressed from wood material and adhesive, both containing water. The moisture content of wood might be on average, for instance, 5 % whereas …
Year: 2013
Tags: evaporation of water, hot press regime, internal vapour pressure, wood-based panels
Authors:The raw material and energy costs play a very important role in the plywood industry. In the Nordic countries the process waste, residues or side flows (there are different ways …
Year: 2013
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Two types of wood are distinguished in pine and spruce – sapwood and heartwood. According to one of the most common theories, the heartwood formation process can be explained by …
Year: 2013
Tags: forest type, heartwood, pine, spruce
Authors:Standard laboratory resistance and efficacy tests for wood and wood-products require the use of obligatory test fungi and usually allow the use of further non-obligatory fungal species. These species are …
Year: 2013
Authors:Built environment causes approximately 40 per cent of the all greenhouse gas emissions. European Union has started many standardization works to assess environmental impacts of construction works. One of the …
Year: 2013
Tags: carbon footprint, life cycle assessment LCA, wood-based products
Authors:Vacuum dried Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) roundwood and sapwood blocks were impregnated with different emulsions based on rapeseed oil with boron compounds and rapeseed oil with Tanalith E. The impregnation …
Year: 2013
Tags: Boron, rapeseed oil, Scots pine, Tanalith E
Authors:The porous structure of solid wood can be compressed to obtain a higher density material. This modification method is referred to as densification and is performed by compressing solid wood …
Year: 2013
Tags: densification, hardness, set-recovery, thermal modification
Authors:Society is placing an increasing demand on materials, which is leading to a “carbon shortage” in certain industries, such as those dependent upon cellulosic fibres. Whilst opportunities may exist for …
Year: 2013
Tags: cellulose fibres, nanocellulose, production, properties, wood
Authors:Cellular wood material DendroLight® is one of newest wood products. It is manufacturing of low quality sawn timber. Due cellular structure, this material has lowest density than solid wood. Cellular …
Year: 2013
Authors:The durability of the heartwood of Siberian larch was examined through a screening process according to EN 113 with wood preservatives entry of different concentrations. Two samples were taken from …
Year: 2013
Tags: durability, Larix sibirica, retention, wood preservatives
Authors:The poster presents the main ideas and some results of the five year project funded by Finnish Forest Cluster strategic centre (Finnish Bioeconomy Cluster, FIBIC, from 2012). Our study concentrated …
Year: 2013
Tags: extractives, heartwood, Scots pine, screening methods, selection, variation
Authors:Wood density is a variable influencing many of the technological and quality properties of wood. Previous studies have shown that wood density is an important indicator for wood end-use as …
Year: 2013
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Sudan is endowed by a great diversity of tree species; nevertheless the utilization of wood resources has traditionally concentrated to a few numbers of them. Most of the indigenous hardwood …
Year: 2013
Tags: Acacia seyal, density, hardness strength
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