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Water states and migration in Xinjiang poplar and Mongolian Scotch pine monitored by TD-NMR during drying

  • Zhe Wang , Xi-Ming Wang EMAIL logo and Zhang-Jing Chen
Published/Copyright: October 12, 2017

Abstract

The time domain nuclear magnetic resonance (TD-NMR) technique was applied to observe the water states, water migration and the T2cutoff of sapwood (sW) and heartwood (hW) of Xinjiang poplar and Mongolian Scotch pine wood during drying. Three components in the T2 spectrum could be observed for poplar and pine at room temperature, and a large, short time component and a small, long time component of free water was visible at the melting point of water. During drying, the long time T2 component diminished rapidly above the fiber saturation point (FSP), and almost disappeared close to or below the FSP. The short time components of the T2 distributions slightly enlarged with decreasing moisture content (MC) above the FSP but rapidly diminished and shifted to the left side below the FSP. The bound water content estimated based on the T2cutoff is in agreement with previous findings. Free and bound water have been found to be in two primary states both in poplar and pine. The loss of free water was rapid and profound but the bound water slightly increased with decreasing MC above the FSP, and the free water evaporated completely close to the FSP, where the bound water began to disappear significantly.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Award Number: 31760186), and the International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China (Award Number 2013DFA32000).

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Received: 2017-2-19
Accepted: 2017-9-11
Published Online: 2017-10-12
Published in Print: 2018-1-26

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