Mechanical and thermal properties of particle boards made from farm residues

Coir and Sisal Fibers as Fillers in the Production of Eucalyptus Medium Density Particleboards - MDP

“…These voids are occupied by air, and since air has a lower thermal conductivity than the wood 46 . The relationships between density and thermal conductivity were also observed by for Bekhta and Dobrowolska 46 when studying the properties of wood-gypsum boards and also by Sampathrajan et al 47 measuring properties of boards made from farm residues.…”

The influence of natural reinforcement fibers on erosion properties of earth plaster materials for straw bale buildings

“…On the other hand, faced with the worldwide shortage of forest resources, industry is showing increased interest in the production of particleboard from agricultural residues ( Sampathrajan et al , 1992 ). Wheat straw contains a large amount of fi ber with the potential to replace wood for particleboard fabrication.…”

Wood production, wood technology, and biotechnological impacts

“…Globally, many lignocellulosic material options exist for the production of composite products, both in industrialised as well as in developing countries. Tested in production of particle-and fibreboards were for example wheat straw , Mo et al 2003, Boquillon et al 2004, Schirp et al 2006a, paddy straw (Sampathrajan et al 1992, Hiziroglu et al 2007), reed , Habibi 2006, Miscanthus fibres (Velasquez et al 2002, Salvadó et al 2003, Agropyron straw (Zheng et al 2007), bamboo (Zhang et al 1996, Ma et al 1998, Bai et al 1999 The process of particle board production on pilot scale in the "Biotechnikum" at the Institute of Forest Botany in Göttingen (compare Fig. 19).…”

“…Once material filling is finished, the casting trays are transported to the press shown in Fig. 17L for hot-pressing the material (Xu et al , 2006, cotton stalks (Guler & Ozen 2004), banana fibres (Bilba et al 2007), sun-flower stalks (Khristova et al 1998 and peels (Boehme 1993), corn stover (Ren et al 2006) and maize cobs (Sampathrajan et al 1992), rice husks (Panthapulakkal et al 2006), peanut shells (Batalla et al 2005), almond husks (Crespo et al 2007), durian peels (Khedari et al 2004), coconut stem chips (Papadopoulos et al 2002), pith (Sampathrajan et al 1992), and coir (Khedari et al 2004), palm fronds (Suzuki et al 1998, Laemsak & Okuma 2000, sugarcane bagasse , sisal (Agopyan et al , Tonoli et al 2007), rattan (Olorunnisola & Adefisan 2002), and also newsprint (Nada & Hassan 1999) and other types of waste papers , Massijaya & Okuma 1996, Grigoriou 2003, Le Fur et al 2004, Hwang et al 2006. However, these various types of fibres have tremendous variations in chemical and physical properties as compared to wood fibres.…”