Industrial waste water for biotechnological reduction of aldehyde emissions from wood products
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Daniel Stratev
Abstract
Pine wood particles were treated with effluents from the wood-board manufacturing industry or from a communal clarification plant, and the effect of these treatments on aldehyde emissions of wood material was tested. Pine wood strands were treated in the same manner and strand boards were produced from the treated material on a laboratory scale. The 28-day volatile organic compound emissions of the boards were determined in a microchamber using Tenax-TDAS/GC-MS analytics. Boards made from treated strands exhibited significantly lower aldehyde emissions compared to control boards. Analyses of microflora and of wood extractives confirmed that microbial metabolism in industrial effluents consumed unsaturated fatty acids (UFAs) present in wood. As UFAs are the source of aldehyde emissions due to auto-oxidation, the aldehyde emission was consequently reduced. A routine treatment of wood raw material with properly chosen industrial effluents may therefore be regarded as a cost-reducing and efficient method for the utilisation of industrial waste waters.
Acknowledgments
We thank the Austrian government and the federal governments of Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and Carinthia for funding the Competence Centre for Wood Composites and Wood Chemistry.
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Articles in the same Issue
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Review Articles
- A large-scale test set-up for measuring VOC emissions from wood products under laboratory conditions in simulated real rooms
- Industrial waste water for biotechnological reduction of aldehyde emissions from wood products
- Original Articles
- Light scattering characterization of lignosulfonate structure in saline solutions
- Differences in wood properties of Picea abies L. Karst. in relation to site of provenance and population genetics
- Rapid determination of biomass and polypropylene in three types of wood plastic composites (WPCs) using FTIR spectroscopy and partial least squares regression (PLSR)
- Thermal modification of Southern pine combined with wax emulsion preimpregnation: effect on hydrophobicity and dimensional stability
- Mixed-mode fracture toughness of bond lines of PRF and PUR adhesives in European beech wood
- Effect of specimen dimension and pre-heating temperature on supercritical CO2 dewatering of radiata pine sapwood
- Sound absorption of wood-based materials
- Threshold for ion movements in wood cell walls below fiber saturation observed by X-ray fluorescence microscopy (XFM)
- Oxygen plasma treatment of bamboo fibers (BF) and its effects on the static and dynamic mechanical properties of BF-unsaturated polyester composites
- A combined view on composition, molecular structure, and micromechanics of fungal degraded softwood
- Morphological changes induced in wood samples by aqueous NaOH treatment and their effects on the conversion of cellulose I to cellulose II
- Young’s modulus and shear modulus of solid wood measured by the flexural vibration test of specimens with large height/length ratios
- Effects of cell wall ultrastructure on the transverse shrinkage anisotropy of Scots pine wood
- Short Note
- Reacted copper(II) concentrations in earlywood and latewood of micronized copper-treated Canadian softwood species
