WO2008140324A1 - Microwave curing of impregnated wood - Google Patents
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- WO2008140324A1 WO2008140324A1 PCT/NO2008/000165 NO2008000165W WO2008140324A1 WO 2008140324 A1 WO2008140324 A1 WO 2008140324A1 NO 2008000165 W NO2008000165 W NO 2008000165W WO 2008140324 A1 WO2008140324 A1 WO 2008140324A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
- B27K—PROCESSES, APPARATUS OR SELECTION OF SUBSTANCES FOR IMPREGNATING, STAINING, DYEING, BLEACHING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS, OR TREATING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS WITH PERMEANT LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF CORK, CANE, REED, STRAW OR SIMILAR MATERIALS
- B27K3/00—Impregnating wood, e.g. impregnation pretreatment, for example puncturing; Wood impregnation aids not directly involved in the impregnation process
- B27K3/02—Processes; Apparatus
- B27K3/15—Impregnating involving polymerisation including use of polymer-containing impregnating agents
- B27K3/153—Without in-situ polymerisation, condensation, or cross-linking reactions
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
- B27K—PROCESSES, APPARATUS OR SELECTION OF SUBSTANCES FOR IMPREGNATING, STAINING, DYEING, BLEACHING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS, OR TREATING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS WITH PERMEANT LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF CORK, CANE, REED, STRAW OR SIMILAR MATERIALS
- B27K5/00—Treating of wood not provided for in groups B27K1/00, B27K3/00
- B27K5/003—Treating of wood not provided for in groups B27K1/00, B27K3/00 by using electromagnetic radiation or mechanical waves
- B27K5/0055—Radio-waves, e.g. microwaves
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- Modified wood is produced by first impregnating a wood specimen with a suitable amount of a polymerizable liquid, for example a solution of low molecular weight furan derivatives such as furfural, furfuryl alcohol bishydroxymethylfuran or combinations thereof. After impregnation the wood specimen is heated, whereby the polymerizable compounds are polymerized into a furan polymer in the wood cells. This polymerisation process is referred to as "curing" of the impregnated wood.
- a polymerizable liquid for example a solution of low molecular weight furan derivatives such as furfural, furfuryl alcohol bishydroxymethylfuran or combinations thereof.
- impregnated wood is cured by the use of microwave radiation ( hereafter "MW").
- a wood specimen is first subjected to an impregnation step comprising a solution of furfuryl alcohol, furfural, bishydroxymethylfuran or other low molecular weight polymerizable furan derivatives.
- the impregnating solution may be diluted with water or an other suitable solvent to concentrations between 20 and 80%, and may further comprise suitable catalysts and/or initiators.
- Such an impregnation step will normally be of the "full cell" type.
- the microwave curing step can be repeated in a number of iterations that ensure an optimal curing of the impregnated wood, and even a final drying of the wood can be accomplished, reducing the need for a separate final drying process.
- between one and 50 heating iterations are employed, and according to another aspect of the invention between 10 and 30 heating iterations are employed.
- the energy used for the microwave curing is in the range 10 - 200 kWh/(m 3 wood).
- Various different microwave frequencies can be used, however, depending on the required penetration depth of the heat induced in the wood.
- the wood specimen is wrapped in foil prior to the heating step.
- the microwave radiation treatment can be included into a product grading system on conveyer belts.
- the furan polymer modified wood products obtainable by the described method will in one aspect of the invention have a polymer loading expressed as weight percent gain of the dry untreated parent wood of 10 to 100 %. These modified wood products will be useful where demands on durability, hardness, dimensional stability and reduced moisture uptake are important.
- the impregnation solution used in this study consisted of 26 % furfuryl alcohol in water, with maleic anhydride and citric acid added as catalysts.
- the wood moisture content before impregnation was 11 %.
- the wood material was used directly for the microwave treatment.
- the samples can optionally be wrapped in plastic foil in order to avoid uneven polymerisation or evaporation while under microwave irradiation.
- a magnetron with a frequency of 2.45 GHz was used with power levels from 600 W- 1800 W.
- Wood samples were transported into the MW radiation chamber by using a conveyer belt. The speed of the conveyor belt was set between 10 mm/sec and 34 mm/sec.
- the wood samples were subjected to several microwave irradiations in iteration. 10- 30 iterations of microwave treatment at an energy consumption of the wood samples of 15- 30 kWh/m 3 were performed. It was seen that the 30 iterations could be performed in less than an hour under appropriate conditions.
- the wood samples treated with these MW parameters are free of cracks, have reduced moisture content and have a brownish colour due to polymerisation of furfuryl alcohol.
- the degree of fixation can be used as a method for analysing the amount of polymerized furfuryl alcohol.
- W amount of furfuryl alcohol that was brought into the wood specimen
- Figure 1 Degree of fixation of furfuryl alcohol impregnated pine sapwood samples during leaching test (EN 84) after 3 different microwave treatments.
- a degree of fixation above 95 % was calculated for MW-treated samples with 30 process iterations (Microwave treatment 3).
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Priority Applications (8)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| AT08753826T ATE520508T1 (en) | 2007-05-11 | 2008-05-09 | MICROWAVE HARDENING OF IMPREGNATED WOOD |
| CA002686950A CA2686950A1 (en) | 2007-05-11 | 2008-05-09 | Microwave curing of impregnated wood |
| CN200880015463A CN101790445A (en) | 2007-05-11 | 2008-05-09 | Microwave curing of impregnated wood |
| EP08753826A EP2155452B1 (en) | 2007-05-11 | 2008-05-09 | Microwave curing of impregnated wood |
| US12/599,507 US20100255212A1 (en) | 2007-05-11 | 2008-05-09 | Microwave curing of impregnated wood |
| AP2009005046A AP2009005046A0 (en) | 2007-05-11 | 2008-05-09 | Microwave curing of impregnated wood |
| JP2010508325A JP2010526693A (en) | 2007-05-11 | 2008-05-09 | Microwave curing of impregnated wood |
| AU2008251135A AU2008251135A1 (en) | 2007-05-11 | 2008-05-09 | Microwave curing of impregnated wood |
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| US91732607P | 2007-05-11 | 2007-05-11 | |
| US60/917,326 | 2007-05-11 |
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| WO2008140324A1 true WO2008140324A1 (en) | 2008-11-20 |
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| PCT/NO2008/000165 Ceased WO2008140324A1 (en) | 2007-05-11 | 2008-05-09 | Microwave curing of impregnated wood |
Country Status (10)
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| US (1) | US20100255212A1 (en) |
| EP (1) | EP2155452B1 (en) |
| JP (1) | JP2010526693A (en) |
| CN (1) | CN101790445A (en) |
| AP (1) | AP2009005046A0 (en) |
| AT (1) | ATE520508T1 (en) |
| AU (1) | AU2008251135A1 (en) |
| CA (1) | CA2686950A1 (en) |
| RU (1) | RU2009145035A (en) |
| WO (1) | WO2008140324A1 (en) |
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| US12343896B2 (en) | 2020-07-29 | 2025-07-01 | Furanwood Co., Ltd. | Method for producing modified wood-based material, furan derivative resinification solution, and modified wood-based material |
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| EP0990493A1 (en) | 1998-09-09 | 2000-04-05 | Röhm Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung | Process for production of wood-plastic combinations by high energy electron accelerator |
| WO2001041988A1 (en) | 1999-12-10 | 2001-06-14 | Para-Chemie Gmbh | Method for producing wood-plastic combinations with an inhomogeneous plastic distribution |
| WO2004011214A2 (en) | 2002-07-26 | 2004-02-05 | Wood Polymer Technologies Asa | Furan polymer impregnated wood |
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| CN101913181A (en) * | 2010-08-13 | 2010-12-15 | 尹侃 | Wood working process |
| US12343896B2 (en) | 2020-07-29 | 2025-07-01 | Furanwood Co., Ltd. | Method for producing modified wood-based material, furan derivative resinification solution, and modified wood-based material |
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| AP2009005046A0 (en) | 2009-12-31 |
| CN101790445A (en) | 2010-07-28 |
| JP2010526693A (en) | 2010-08-05 |
| ATE520508T1 (en) | 2011-09-15 |
| US20100255212A1 (en) | 2010-10-07 |
| RU2009145035A (en) | 2011-06-20 |
| CA2686950A1 (en) | 2008-11-20 |
| EP2155452B1 (en) | 2011-08-17 |
| AU2008251135A1 (en) | 2008-11-20 |
| EP2155452A1 (en) | 2010-02-24 |
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