Properties of hardwood saw mill residue-based particleboards as affected by processing parameters》.pdf

i n d u s t r i a l c r o p s a n d p r o d u c t s 2 9 ( 2 0 0 9 ) 248–254 a v a i la b le at ww w.scie ncedirect. com j o u rn al h omepage: www.elsevi er.c om /locate/i ndcrop Properties of hardwood saw mill residue-based particleboards as affected by processing parameters Nirdosha Gamage a, Sujeeva Setunge a,∗, Margaret Jollands a, Jamie Hague b a School of Civil and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476V, Vic. Melbourne 3001, Australia b CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products, Bayview Avenue, Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Hardwood saw mill residues have traditionally not been favoured by the particleboard indus- Received 21 September 2006 try (or indeed other forest product industries) owing to their high density and extractives Received in revised form content. However, re-growth and plantation of timber industry has been producing hard- 13 May 2008 wood saw mill residues with lower extractive contents and lower densities in recent years. Accepted 17 May 2008 The work presented here deals with investigating the use of hardwood saw mill residue, which is currently treated as solid waste, in producing industry-grade particleboard. A crossed experimental design covering seven process parameters with two levels was per- Keywords: formed to manufacture three-layer particleboards in the laboratory to investigate effects Hardwood particleboard of processing parameters on