“…The high porosity between untreated oil palm trunk particles allowed water to seep in, resulting in high water absorption which made the particleboard to swell and expand the thickness [23]. This result was in accordance with the previous study that particleboards without additives or a chemical modification could easily absorb water and expanded [30]. However, with addition of the PVOH and citric acid into the treated OPT for particleboard making has improved the dimensional stability of the particle by half.…”
Section: Evaluation On Mechanical Properties and Dimensional Stabilitsupporting
h i g h l i g h t s Particleboards from oil palm trunk were made. The treated particleboards met the minimum requirement for LOI standard. Flammability and mechanical properties of such particleboard were improved. Flame retardant particleboards could be used to the timber and construction industry. Treated particleboards with added citric acid and calcium carbonate give good result.
“…The high porosity between untreated oil palm trunk particles allowed water to seep in, resulting in high water absorption which made the particleboard to swell and expand the thickness [23]. This result was in accordance with the previous study that particleboards without additives or a chemical modification could easily absorb water and expanded [30]. However, with addition of the PVOH and citric acid into the treated OPT for particleboard making has improved the dimensional stability of the particle by half.…”
Section: Evaluation On Mechanical Properties and Dimensional Stabilitsupporting
h i g h l i g h t s Particleboards from oil palm trunk were made. The treated particleboards met the minimum requirement for LOI standard. Flammability and mechanical properties of such particleboard were improved. Flame retardant particleboards could be used to the timber and construction industry. Treated particleboards with added citric acid and calcium carbonate give good result.
“…The panels have been produced by pressing lignocellulosic materials, leading to high mechanical properties and specific strength/stiffness 2 . The Brazilian particleboard industries have been used a high amount of reforested wood, such as Pinus and Eucalyptus 3,4 . The demand for wood products has been rising considerably year by year, which promotes an increase in reforestation areas with fast-growing species 5 .…”
A multilayer particleboard panels, consisted of sugarcane bagasse reinforced composite as core material and hybrid composites made with Pinus taeda particles and Malva fibres as facing materials, were designed and evaluated in this work. Tukey test was used to identify the effect of the facing material, considering different combinations of Pinus taeda particles and Malva fibres, on the bulk density, thickness swelling, flexural strength, flexural stiffness and X-ray densitometry. A spray-up process was used to spread castor oil based polyurethane resin upon the dispersive phases followed by a hot compaction at 100 o C. The particleboards were classified as medium density panels in accordance to the Brazilian, American and Canadian Standards. All treatments reached the minimum strength except for elastic modulus. Tukey test demonstrated the flexural strength and modulus responses for all treatments were statistically similar. Hybrid particleboard consisted of 75% of Pinus taeda wood and 25% of Malva fibres revealed a promising sustainable material for furniture industries, combining strength, low-cost and lower thickness swelling values.
“…Previously, a new formaldehyde‐free particle board was prepared via using unsaturated polyester as adhesives 27 . In the present work, we report a new and efficiency method employing an in situ thermo compression strategy to fabricate zeolite that faithfully inherits the structure of wood fibers, as a result, improve the flame‐retardant property of formaldehyde‐free fiber board.…”
Fiberboard which is not flame retardant and releases formaldehyde is widely used in residents' life, which brings serious problems. Now, we use water glass and Al2(SO4)3 to form zeolite precursor, and use UP as adhesive to prepare zeolite‐based flame retardant formaldehyde‐free medium density fiberboard in situ within a few minutes. The molecular sieve structure was characterized by SEM, TEM, BET, and XRD. At the same time, we put forward the possible mechanism of zeolite formation according to the internal temperature and pressure test during fiberboard production. Wood fiber is coated with zeolite, which separates pyrolysis gas from air and avoids further combustion, resulting in low heat release, low smoke and toxic carbon monoxide emission, high residue, and good flame retardant performance. Furthermore, the formaldehyde emission of the formaldehyde‐free flame retardant board is 0.047 mg/L, which proves that it does not contain formaldehyde.
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