WOOD PRESERVATION Flashcards

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  • the process of preserving or increasing the life of wood either chemically or mechanically
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WOOD PRESERVATION

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OBJECTIVES OF WOOD PRESERVATION:

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  • increase durability and service life of wood
  • increase natural resistance to decay
  • stabilize the wood to environmental changes
  • improve surface for mechanical wear
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  • chemicals applied to wood to make it more resistant to attacks of agencies of wood deterioration
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WOOD PRESERVATIVES

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REQUIREMENTS OF A GOOD WOOD PRESERVATIVES:

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  • permanent
  • penetrative
  • safe to handle and use
  • harmless to wood and metal
  • plentiful and available
  • economical
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TYPES OF WOOD PRESERVATIVE:

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  1. Water-borne preservatives (WBP)
  2. Oil-borne preservatives (OBP)
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– chemicals that dissolve in water

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Water-borne preservatives (WBP)

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Water-borne preservatives (WBP) :

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a. Arsenic salts
b. Chromium salts
c. Copper sulfate
d. Borax and boron salts
e. Mercuric chloride
f. Copper chrome arsenate (CCA)
g. Boliden salts
h. Wolman salts

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– include by-products of coal distillation, coal tar refining, petroleum refining and wood distillation
- A preservative treatment that is applied to wood in the form of solution in oil

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Oil-borne preservatives (OBP)

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METHODS OF WOOD PRESERVATIVE:

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a. Brush and spray treatment
b. Dipping
c. Steeping
d. Soaking
e. Kyanizing
f. Hot and cold bath

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– brushing or spraying preservatives over the surface of the wood to be treated

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Brush and spray treatment

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– immersing wood in a preservatives (WBP) for a few seconds or minutes

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Dipping

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– process of submerging wood in a tank of preservative in water solution

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Steeping

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– submerging wood on cold OBP for several days

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Soaking

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– steeping wood on mercuric chloride, patented by John Kyan in England in 1832

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Kyanizing

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– involves the immersion of seasoned wood in successive baths of hot and cold wood preservatives

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Hot and cold bath

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PRESSURE PROCESSES OF WOOD PRESERVATION:

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  1. Full-cell process
  2. Empty-cell process
  3. High pressure sap displacement (HPSD)
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  • process used when maximum absorption of the preservative is desired
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Full-cell process

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Full-cell process:

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Bethel process

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  • devised in the 19th century by the U.S. inventor John Bethell
  • sealing the wood in a pressure chamber and applying a vacuum in order to remove air and moisture from the wood cells
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Bethel process

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  • part of the preservative forced into the wood under pressure is subsequently recovered, so that the wood cells tends to be coated with preservative rather than filled with it
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Empty-cell process

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Empty-cell process:

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a. Rueping method
b. Lowry method

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  • patented by Max Rueping of Germany in 1902
  • it involves the application of preliminary air pressure to the wood cells tends to be coated with preservatives
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Rueping method

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  • patented by C.B. Lowry in 1906
  • an empty cell process in which the air in the wood is compressed solely by the preservative introduced into the cylinder under pressure
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Lowry method

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  • introduced and patented by Dr. Auguste Boucherie (France, 1838)
  • developed by the Forest Products Research Development Institute (FPRDI) in UPLB to be adopted for the use in rural areas
  • a method where the sap from a freshly-felled log is forced out of the wood by a WBP solution introduced under pressure through a cylinder up fitted over one end of the log or pole
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High pressure sap displacement (HPSD)

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  • The effectiveness of treatment with a good preservative lies in the amount of preservative absorbed and in depth to which the preservative penetrated, the wood in relation to the conditions of services or hazards of exposure.
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QUALITY CONTROL IN WOOD PRESERVATION

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  • the depth of adsorption expressed as the average of the maximum and minimum values of penetration (inches or centimeter)
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PENETRATION

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  • amount of preservative absorbed by the wood expressed in terms of weight of preservative per unit volume of wood
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RETENTION

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FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE TREATABILITY OF A GIVEN PIECE OF WOOD:

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a. Moisture content
b. Sapwood and heartwood
c. Anatomical features of wood
d. Along the grain penetration is faster and easier than across the grain
e. Treatment process used

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– seasoned or dried wood are easier to treat except when the process used is diffusion or HPSD method

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Moisture content

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– sapwood portion of timber treats easier than the heartwood portion due to the presence of extractives in HW

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Sapwood and heartwood

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– wood with larger pores and with less tyloses are easier to treat

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Anatomical features of wood

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– pressure process will yield greater absorption and deeper penetration than non-pressure methods

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Treatment process used

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_________ penetration is faster and easier than across the grain

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Along the grain