Cai Liping Deng Weiping Liu Zhiqun. Analysing the changes of the components of steam treated wood chips by infrared. [J]. China Wood Industry (1):11-14(1993)
Cai Liping Deng Weiping Liu Zhiqun. Analysing the changes of the components of steam treated wood chips by infrared. [J]. China Wood Industry (1):11-14(1993) DOI: 10.19455/j.mcgy.1993.01.003.
Analysing the changes of the components of steam treated wood chips by infrared
Highly dimensionally stable particleboards were experimentally made from chips treated with saturated steam at elevated pressure. The changes of the components of steam treated wood chips of spruce and birch were analysed by infrared in this paper. Infrared spectra demonstrated that the hemicelluloses and hydroxy in steam-treated chips were less than that in untreated chips. This is the main reasons why steam treatment could improve particleboard stability. And also the infrared spectra showed that the reduction of the hemicelluloses and hydroxy in birch chip was more than that in spruce chip under the same condition of steam treatment. Therefore, the stability improvement of steam treated birch particleboard was much greater than that of spruce.