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| Author(s): |
Marcio Rogério da Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2012-11-21 |
| Examining board members: |
Carlito Calil Junior;
Debora Gonçalves;
José Silvio Govone;
Gilmara de Oliveira Machado;
José Alexandrino de Sousa
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| Advisor: | Carlito Calil Junior |
| Abstract | |
Heat treatment of wood (or thermal rectification) is performed by heating wood below carbonization temperature, up to 280ºC. The aim of this technology is to improve the wood properties and thus to obtain products with higher added value. In this study, we evaluate the behavior of structural pieces of two species: Eucalyptus citriodora (Corymbia citriodora) and Pinus taeda, thermally treated at temperatures of 160, 180, 200, 220 e 240ºC, and pine up to the temperature of 260ºC. The experimental analyses to thermally treated wood were visual grading, chemical, physical, mechanical (strength and stiffness) and durability. Regarding chemical analysis, there was a reduction in the extractive and hemicellulose contents, while and the cellulose and lignin content increased; density and swelling properties decreased with increasing temperature, and the air permeability increased to eucalyptus. Changes in the colorimetric properties of wood caused the species in the study to become darker due to degradation of chemical components, mainly hemicellulose. In general, the strength properties (compression, bending, tension and shear parallel to the grain) of wood reduced and the stiffness properties (elasticity modulus by compression (Eco) and MOE) improved along thermal treatment. The determination of characteristic values of strength to structural calculations was adequate when compared to the Brazilian norm ABNT NBR 7190/97. It was observed that thermal treatment provided protection of wood of Eucalyptus citriodora from subterranean termites attack Nasutitermes sp., in the force-feeding test and Eucalyptus citriodora and Pinus taeda on soft rot fungi Paecilomyces variotti. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/06727-1 - Effect of thermal treatment on the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of structural elements of Eucalyptus citriodora e Pinus taeda |
| Grantee: | Marcio Rogério da Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |