Chipboards with Plasma Protective Decorative Coatings

Abstract

A plasma technology has been developed for the production of chipboard with vitreous protective decorative coatings. To prevent high temperatures of the plasma jet from being applied to the front surface of the chipboard, an intermediate layer was applied, which included a mixture of sodium liquid glass with colored glass powders based on profiled and sheet cullet. The technology of a two-stage deposition of an intermediate layer before plasma spraying of the main vitreous coating has been developed. The technology provides for the preliminary front surface preparation and the liquid glass application on a wood chipboard, the intermediate layer application and subsequent drying at 95 °C. The adhesion strength of the intermediate layer with the matrix was 1.6–1.8 MPa. The optimal technological parameters of plasma-chemical modification of a protective decorative coating based on fine powders of sheet and profiled glasses have been established: the power of an electric arc plasma installation operation is 8 kW, the flow rate of argon plasma gas - 2.0 m3 /hour. It is shown that the water resistance of protective decorative coatings based on profiled and sheet glass is III hydrolytic class. Vitreous coatings had high reliability and durability, in particular, acid resistance, alkali resistance and microhardness. Due to the electric arc plasma installations use for plasma-chemical modification of protective decorative coatings based on profiled and sheet glass cullet, the technology is resource and energy efficient, and is also recommended for introduction both in furniture industry and in the construction industry.