Background and Purpose: Inhalation of hardwood dust may produce a range of adverse health effects in the upper and lower respiratory system, including asthma, along with Sino-nasal cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer. This study was carried out to evaluate personal exposure to wood dust among workers in chipboard and furniture production saloons in Neka Choob factory, Iran. Materials a...

bending and compression strength of paulownia fortunie wood grown in educational and research forest located at shastkalate, gorgan were studied. paulownia trees were selected among five years old plantation. sampling spot was conducted following standard procedure. trees were cut into logs, which were then cut into 6 cm thickness wood blocks based on geographic directions. wood blocks were div...

the growing interest in using natural fibers as reinforcing agents of polymer-based composites is mainly due to their advantages such as lower cost, lower density, ease of preparation, lower energy requirements for processing, biodegradability, wide availability and relative non-abrasiveness over traditional reinforcing fibers such as glass and carbon. in this study, wood-plastic composite (wpc...

Qualitative and quantitative features are reported for stem wood of 13 collections of 12 species of the Hawaiian genus Dubautia. Although the species share a basic wood plan, quantitative expressions range widely, especially with respect to vessel element dimensions, vessel density, vessel grouping, length of libriform fibers, and dimensions of multiseriate rays. Ecology and habit explain most ...

This study investigated the influence of site conditions on physical and morphological properties hawthorn (Crataegus azarolus L.) wood grown in Zagros forests Iran. Hawthorn is a valuable woody species Iran’s with data deficiency its properties. To our best knowledge, there no wood. Twenty-seven mature trees were randomly chosen sampled at three altitude levels (1 800–2 000, 2 000–2 200, 200–2...

Deforestation is the accelerating factor of climate change in developing countries. The German Watch Report 2020 had rated Pakistan number seventh most affected country due to adverse impacts change. problem deforestation poses an existential danger forest-depleted country. It utmost importance predict main drivers control deforestation. This study was conducted from October 2021 August 2022 dr...

This study aimed to describe the morphoanatomical characters of fruits, seeds and seedlings, in addition characterizing anatomy leaves trunk species Protium altsonii Sandwith. The wood were collected Sustainable Development Reserve Iratapuru River (SDR), Amapá. Cross longitudinal sections cut with a rotary microtome. As for characteristics, it was observed that fruits are globose ovoid, slightl...

Wood contains the majority of the nutrients in tropical trees, yet controls over wood nutrient concentrations and their function are poorly understood. We measured wood nutrient concentrations in 106 tree species in 10 forest plots spanning a regional fertility gradient in Panama. For a subset of species, we quantified foliar nutrients and wood density to test whether wood nutrients scale with ...

The possibility of using water insoluble fraction from biomass pyrolysis oil as additive in synthesis of Wood-Plastic novolac has been proved by using Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and Fourier Transformed Infra Red (FT-IR) spectroscopy. Synthesis of novolac with different concentrations (10, 20 and 30 wt %) of water insoluble fraction were performed. It was found that mechanical p...