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Solute diffusion into cell walls in solution-impregnated wood under conditioning process III: effect of relative humidity schedule on solute diffusion into shrinking cell walls
Authors:Soichi Tanaka  Masako Seki  Tsunehisa Miki  Kenji Umemura  Kozo Kanayama
Institution:1.Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere,Kyoto University,Uji,Japan;2.Structural Materials Research Institute,National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,Nagoya,Japan
Abstract:This study has focused on solute diffusing into cell walls in solution-impregnated wood under conditioning, process of evaporating solvent. The purpose of this paper was to clarify the RH- (relative humidity-) schedule that promotes the solute diffusion into shrinking cell walls during conditioning. The wood samples impregnated with a 20 mass% aqueous solution of polyethylene glycol (PEG1540) was conditioned with a temperature of 40?°C to the equilibrium point at the RH where the samples swelled maximally. The samples were subsequently conditioned at 40?°C under the schedules including four ways of RH-decrease steps where the cell walls shrunk. The amount of solute (PEGs) diffused into cell walls during the conditioning logarithmically increased with increasing the number of the RH-decrease steps. This was well explained by the theoretical model that describes the solute diffusion into shrinking cell walls. It is clarified from the model that the RH, or moisture content of the sample, should be decreased as gradually as possible to increase the total amount of diffused solute into shrinking cell walls, and that the amount of diffused solute is smaller for the lower moisture content. The model also suggests that effect of change in RH schedule on change in total amount of diffused solute does not depend on solute diffusivity in the sample under drying in a vacuum over phosphorous pentoxide, and that impregnated wood should be conditioned under natural convection rather than forced convection for promoting the diffusion into shrinking cell walls.
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