Wood modification by heat treatment: a review.
By B. Esteves, Helena Pereira. 2009
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Wood heat treatment has increased significantly in the last few years and is still growing as an industrial process to improve some wood properties. The first studies on heat treatment investigated mainly equilibrium moisture, dimensional stability, durability and mechanical properties. Mass loss, wettability, wood color, and chemical transformations have been subsequently extensively studied, while recent works focus on quality control, modeling, and study the reasons for the improvements. This review explains the recent interest on the heat treatment of wood and synthesizes the major publications on this subject on wood properties, chemical changes, wood uses, and quality control.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Building and Construction, Organic Chemistry
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- DURABILITY OF MASS TIMBER STRUCTURES: A REVIEW OF THE BIOLOGICAL RISKS (2018, background): “Thermal modification has been reported to improve the dimensional stability, reduce hygroscopicity, and increase decay resistance (Esteves and Pereira 2008).”
- A review of wood thermal pretreatments to improve wood composite properties (2013, neutral): “(Esteves and Pereira 2009; Ibach 2010).”
- Effect of Heat Treatment on Color Changes, Dimensional Stability, and Mechanical Properties of Wood (2012, background): “[1,4–6] Thermal modification of wood also improves durability against fungi.[1,7] One of the most significant changes associated with thermal modification is the color of wood, which is important from an aesthetic point of view.”
- Characterization of natural cellulose fiber from corn stalk waste subjected to different surface treatments (2019, background): “Esteves (2009) concluded that cellulose crystallinity could increase after surface treatment due to the degradation of amorphous components in natural fibers and the rearrangement of cellulose molecules.”
- Thermal treatment of wood using vegetable oils: A review (2018, background): “[13] B.M. Esteves, A.V. Marques, I.J. Domingos, H.M. Pereira, Influence of steam heating on the properties of pine (Pinus pinaster) and eucalypt (Eucalyptus globulus) wood, Wood Sci. Technol.”