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Drvna industrija, Vol. 67 No. 3, 2016.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.5552/drind.2016.1522

Calorific Value and Chemical Properties in Juvenile and Mature Wood of Thermally-Modified Eucalyptus Grandis

Fred Willians Calonego ; Department of Forest Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brazil
Elias Taylor Durgante Severo ; Department of Forest Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brazil
Cláudio Angeli Sansígolo ; Department of Forest Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brazil
Marcos Antonio de Rezende ; Department of Physics and Biophysics, Biosciences Institute, UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brazil
Edson Marcelo Bruder ; Department of Physics and Biophysics, Biosciences Institute, UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brazil
Vladimir Eliodoro Costa ; Department of Physics and Biophysics, Biosciences Institute, UNESP, Botucatu-SP, Brazil

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Abstract

During thermal modification, timber is exposed to temperatures approaching 200 ºC for several hours and wood properties change. This study was aimed at evaluating the calorific value and chemical properties of juvenile and mature wood of thermally modified Eucalyptus grandis. Boards were taken from 30-year-old E. grandis trees and thermally modified at 180ºC. Samples of the untreated and thermally modified wood were transformed into chips and then processed into sawdust for the energy and chemical characterization of juvenile and mature wood. The results show that the thermal modifi cation causes: (1) signifi cant increases of 3.7 % and 6.8 %, respectively, in the net calorifi c value of juvenile and mature wood; (2) significant increases of 24.8 % and 47.6 %, respectively, in the extractive content of juvenile and mature wood; (3) significant decreases of 4.2 % and 8.3 % in the respective holocellulose content; and (4) signifi cant decreases in the galactose, xylose and glucose contents. It was demonstrated that the influence of thermal treatment was lower in juvenile wood than in mature wood.

Keywords

biomass; energy; chemical properties; Eucalypts; thermally-modified wood

Hrčak ID:

166743

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/166743

Publication date:

30.9.2016.

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