Decay resistance of thermally-modified Eucalyptus grandis wood at 140 degrees C, 160 degrees C, 180 degrees C, 200 degrees C and 220 degrees C

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2010-12-01

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Calonego, Fred Willians [UNESP]
Durgante Severo, Elias Taylor [UNESP]
Furtado, Edson Luiz [UNESP]

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Elsevier B.V.

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The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of thermal treatment on the biological resistance of Eucalyptus grandis wood to the decay fungus Picnoporus sanguineus. Boards from 5 years and 11 months old E. grandis trees, taken from the stock possessed by the Duratex-SA company, were thermally-modified at 140 degrees C, 160 degrees C, 180 degrees C, 200 degrees C and 220 degrees C in the Laboratory of Wood Drying and Preservation from UNESP, Botucatu, SP, Brazil. Samples of each treatment were treated according to ASTM D-2017 (1994). The experiment tested the accelerated decay caused by the decay fungus P. sanguineus on a system of soil-block wood. The results of thermal treatment showed that an increase of temperature of 180-220 degrees C caused reductions of between 15.7% and 82.4% in the weight loss in the samples from E. grandis incubated with P. sanguineus. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Thermally-modified wood, Eucalyptus grandis, Decay resistance, Picnoporus sanguineus, Soil-block test

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Bioresource Technology. Oxford: Elsevier B.V., v. 101, n. 23, p. 9391-9394, 2010.