Properties of medium-density particleboard from saline Athel wood |
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| Institution: | 1. Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA;2. Processed Foods Research Unit, USDA-ARS-WRRC, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA 94710, USA;1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK;2. Department of Materials, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK;3. Nextek Ltd, 107-111 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2AB, UK;4. Wolfson Centre for Materials Processing, Brunel University, London UB8 3PH, UK;1. University of Brighton, Faculty of Science and Engineering, BN2 4GJ, UK;2. Protista Biotechnology AB, Kvarngatan 2, P.O. Box 86, SE-267 22 Bjuv, Sweden;3. MAST Carbon International Ltd. Jays Close, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG22 4BA, UK;4. Nazarbayev University, School of Engineering, 53, Kabanbay Batyr Ave., Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan;5. Blond McIndoe Research Foundation, Queen Victoria Hospital, Holtye Road, East Grinstead, RH19 3DZ, UK;6. University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK;7. Kingston University, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 2EE, UK;1. Gumushane University, Gumushane Vocational High School, Department of Design, 29100 Gumushane, Turkey;2. Gumushane University, Institute of Natural Applied Science, Department of Forestry and Environment Sciences, 29100 Gumushane, Turkey;3. Gazi University, Faculty of Technical Education, Department of Furniture and Decoration Education, 06500 Ankara, Turkey;1. PANGEA Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Sydney, Australia;2. Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia;1. Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt;2. Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan;3. Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 5-1 Oe, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan;4. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Showa Pharmaceutical University, 3-3165 Higashi-Tamagawagakuen, Machida, Tokyo 194-8543, Japan;1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Prasad V. Potluri Siddhartha Institute of Technology,Vijayawada, 52008, India;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, RVR & JC College of Engineering, Guntur, 522019, India |
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| Abstract: | The Athel tree, Tamarix aphylla (L), can potentially be used as a biomass crop to help manage saline subsurface drainage water in arid land irrigated agriculture. In this study, Athel wood was used to manufacture medium-density particleboard with an aim of developing new applications for the saline wood. The research investigated the effects of different types of adhesives, particle sizes, bark content (BC), resin content (RC), and hot water pretreatment on the mechanical and water resistance properties of the Athel-derived, medium-density particleboards. The measured mechanical properties included tensile strength (TS), modulus of rupture (MOR), modulus of elasticity (MOE), and internal bond strength (IB) of the finished particleboards. Water absorption and thickness swell were used to evaluate the water resistance. Polymeric methane diphenyl diisocyanate (PMDI) resin made particleboard of better mechanical properties and water resistance than urea formaldehyde (UF). The medium size (20–40 mesh) particles gave the best mechanical properties and water resistance than of the particleboard when evaluated against the smaller size (40–60 mesh) and larger size (10–20 mesh) particles. The mechanical properties of particleboard were improved as the resin content of the UF-board increased from 7 to 16%, but deteriorated as the bark content increased from 0 to 16.2%. The particleboard made from the wood particles that had undergone hot water pretreatment had poor mechanical properties and water resistance compared with the particleboard made from the untreated particles. Saline Athel wood is an appropriate material for manufacturing particleboards. |
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