| Title: |
DECAY RESISTANCE VARIABILITY OF EUROPEAN WOOD SPECIES THERMALLY MODIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL PROCESS. |
| Authors: |
CANDELIER, Kévin1 kevin.candelier@cirad.fr, PIGNOLET, Luc2 luc.pignolet@cirad.fr, LOTTE, Sylvain2 sylvain.lotte@cirad.fr, GUYOT, Alban2 alban.guyot@cirad.fr, BOUSSEAU, Benjamin3 benjamin.bousseau@sefwood.com, CUNY, Etienne4 etienne.cuny@sefwood.com, THEVENON, Marie-France5 marie-france.thevenon@cirad.fr |
| Source: |
Pro Ligno. Jun2017, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p10-20. 11p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*WOOD decay, *HEAT treatment, *WOOD products, *FOREST products, *PRESERVATION of wood |
| Abstract: |
Thermal modification is now considered as a new ecofriendly industrial wood modification process improving mainly the material decay resistance and its dimensional stability. Most industrial thermal treatment processes use convection heat transfer which induces sometimes heterogeneous treatment temperature propagation within the oven and lead to the heterogeneity in treatment efficiency. Thus, it is common that treatment is not completely effective on several stack boards, in a same batch. The aim of this paper was to study the decay resistance variability of various European wood species thermally modified. Thermal modifications were performed around 240°C during 4h, on about 10m³ of 27x152x2000mm³ wood planks placed in an industrial oven having a volume of 20m³, on the following wood species: spruce, ash, beech and poplar. All of the tests concerning the decay resistance were carried out in the laboratory using untreated beech and pine woods as reference materials. An agar block test was used to determine the resistance of thermally modified woods, leached beforehand according to EN 84 standard or not, to brown-rot and white-rot fungi, according to XP CEN/TS 15083-1. A large selection of treated wood samples was tested in order to estimate the variability of treatment efficiency. Thermal treatment increased the biological durability of all leached and un-leached modified wood samples, compared with native wood species. The treatment temperature of 240°C used in this study is sufficient to reach durability classes "durable'' or "very durable'' for the four wood species. However, the dispersion of weight loss values, due to the fungal attacks was very important and showed a large variability of the durability of wood which has been treated in a single batch. These results showed that there is a substantial need to develop process control and indicator in order to insure that the quality of treated timber is properly evaluated with a view to putting this modified timber on the market under a chain of custody. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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