Particleboard made from hammer milled black spruce bark residues |
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| Authors: | P Blanchet A Cloutier B Riedl |
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| Institution: | (1) Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt Faculté de foresterie et de géomatique Pavillon Abitibi-Price, Université Laval Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4, CA |
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| Abstract: | Summary The disposal of bark residues is an important problem for the forest industry. An important proportion of the bark produced
by the paper and lumber industries is used for energy production, but a significant amount of bark is still unused. The objective
of this study was to determine the technical feasibility of making particleboards from black spruce bark residues bonded with
urea formaldehyde resin and meeting the indoor performance requirements for wood particleboards. In the positive case, this
would define a new use for black spruce bark residues. Fresh black spruce bark residues were obtained from a sawmill located
in the northeast part of the province of Quebec, Canada. The bark was kiln-dried at 60 °C, the particles were generated from
a hammermill and sieved. Particles from 0.02 to 2.0 mm were used in the surface layers and particles from 2.0 to 6.0 mm were
used in the core layer. Particleboards of 540 × 560 × 16 mm were made with a laboratory hot press following a factorial design
with two manufacturing variables at three levels: (1) wood particles content of the surface layers (0, 25, 50 percent); and
(2) UF resin content of the surface layers (12, 14 and 16 percent) with a UF resin content in the core of 8 percent. This
resulted in a factorial design of 9 different combinations repeated 3 times for a total of 27 boards. It was observed that
the heating kinetics varied according to the wood particles content in the surface layers. The compression ratio of the mat
and the board internal bond, modulus of elasticity, modulus of rupture, linear expansion and thickness swell were determined.
The results show that it is technically possible to make particleboard from bark residues meeting the American National Standard
Institute indoor requirement for wood particleboard under certain conditions. The modulus of rupture of the boards was the
most critical property in this study. The best mechanical properties were obtained with a 50 percent wood content and 14 percent
resin content in the surface layers. The particleboards produced in this study did not meet the minimal requirements for linear
expansion. The temperature measurements performed in the core of the mat during hot pressing show that heat transfer improves
with an increase in wood particles content in the surface layers.
Received 15 June 1998 |
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