Impregnating wood, assisted with ultrasound technology, could improve the impregnation efficiency by improving the permeability of wood, thus affecting the subsequent drying process. Poplar lumber and phenolic resin were applied to investigate the influence of ultrasound-assisted impregnation on the wood drying process. The ultrasonic frequency and processing time were analyzed and correlated. ...

There has been a rapid growth in research and innovation of bio-based adhesives in the engineered wood product industry. This article reviews the recent research published over the last few decades on the synthesis of bio-adhesives derived from such renewable resources as lignin, starch, and plant proteins. The chemical structure of these biopolymers is described and discussed to highlight the ...

Introduction In wood industry, adhesive bonding is one of the key process steps. To ensure continuing technological progress in wood industry it is necessary to explore new possibilities of improvement in adhesive bonding. The potential routes for performance improvements suggested by a state of the art report issued by COST Action E13 Wood Adhesion and Glued Products (Dunky et al. 2002) focus ...

background: solvents, which are widely used in industry, are able to dissolve another substance for creating a solution. solvents have various effects on human health based on their type and chemical composition. methods: this was a cross-sectional study to investigate the harmful effects of solvents on wood painters in yazd city. to achieve information, a census questionnaire was prepared and ...

The study analysed H2020 projects in the wood industry using SNA methods. It was mainly performed R. Based on data set from CORDIS, an adjacency matrix constructed and used to plot network of project participants. Various indicators were then calculated. In search notable distributions research, several statistical methods (maximum likelihood, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, moments, bootstrapping) pe...

We address a complex scheduling problem arising in the wood panel industry with the objective of minimizing a quadratic function of job tardiness. The proposed solution strategy, which is based on an effective genetic algorithm, has been coded and implemented within a major Tunisian company, leader in the wood panel manufacturing. Preliminary experimental results indicate significant decrease o...