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Article history: The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of thermal modication by hot-pressing on the
Received 3 October 2012 performance properties of paulownia wood boards. The boards were thermally modied by hot-pressing
Received in revised form method under different pressure and temperature levels. As two boards for each modication group plus
15 December 2012
two for unmodied, totally 10 experimental wood boards were prepared in this study. Main density,
Accepted 18 December 2012
vertical density prole (VDP), thickness swell (TS), water absorption (WA), moisture content (MC), and
hardness tests were carried out to evaluate the performance properties of the thermally modied or
Keywords:
unmodied wood boards. The results obtained in this study indicated that surface density of the boards
Thermal modication
Performance properties
increased with increasing press pressure. The thermal modication negatively affected the TS and WA
Vertical density prole values of the boards. Hardness values of the wood boards were signicantly improved by the thermal
Paulownia wood boards modication. The results of this research revealed that the thermally compressing method could be
Hot pressing used to improve end-use properties of low-density wood materials made from fast-growing tree species
such as paulownia, poplar, eucalyptus etc. Thus low-value wood materials could be converted to value-
added products. In addition, sustainable management of natural resources could be achieved by using
the thermal modication method.
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Table 1 Table 2
Experimental design of the thermal modication process. Mean density values of the thermally modied or unmodied boards.
Modication groups Temperature Press pressure Pressing Modication groups Density values
( C) (bar) time (min)
g/cm3 Duncans
Control grouping
A 150 20 45
B 150 22.5 45 Control 0.217 (0.012) abcde
C 170 20 45 A 0.202 (0.008) cde
D 170 22.5 45 B 0.199 (0.010) de
C 0.198 (0.008) e
D 0.206 (0.010) bde
Table 3
Thickness swell and water absorption values of the paulownia wood boards.
Thickness swelling (TS) Duncans grouping Water absorption (WA) Duncans grouping
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