Effect of Heat Treatment on Hygroscopicity of Chinese Fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata [Lamb.] Hook.) Wood

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Pan Tianshou College of Architecture, Art and Design, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China

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Research Institute of Wood Industry of Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China

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Forests 2024, 15(4), 630; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15040630 (registering DOI)

Submission received: 7 February 2024
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Revised: 21 March 2024
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Accepted: 25 March 2024
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Published: 29 March 2024

Abstract

Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata [Lamb.] Hook.) is a widely planted species of plantation forest in China, and heat treatment can improve its dimensional stability defects and improve its performance. The wood samples were heat-treated at various temperatures (160, 180, 200, and 220 °C) for 2 h. To clarify the effect of heat treatment on wood hygroscopicity, the equilibrium moisture content (EMC) was measured, the moisture adsorption and desorption rates were determined, the hygroscopic hysteresis was examined, and the Guggenheim, Anderson, and de Boer (GAB) model was fitted to the experimental data. The moisture absorption isotherms of all samples belonged to the Type II adsorption isotherm, but the shape of the desorption isotherm was more linear for heat-treated wood samples, especially when the heat treatment temperature was higher. According to the results analyzed with ANOVA, there were significant differences in equilibrium moisture content between the control samples and the heat-treated samples under the conditions of 30%, 60%, and 95% relative humidity (RH, p < 0.05), and the results of multiple comparisons were similar. The decrease in hygroscopicity was more pronounced in wood treated at higher temperatures. The EMC of the 160–220 °C heat-treated samples of the control samples was 14.00%, 22.37%, 28.95%, and 39.63% lower than that of the control sample at 95% RH. Under low RH conditions (30%), water is taken up mainly via monolayer sorption, and multilayer sorption gradually predominates over monolayer sorption with the increase in RH. The dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) analysis indicated that the heat-treated wood revealed an increase in isotherm hysteresis, which was due to the change in cell wall chemical components and microstructure caused by heat treatment. In addition, the effective specific surface area of wood samples decreased significantly after heat treatment, and the change trend was similar to that of equilibrium moisture content.

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Gao, Y.; Li, Z.; Zhao, L.; Lyu, J.
Effect of Heat Treatment on Hygroscopicity of Chinese Fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata [Lamb.] Hook.) Wood. Forests 2024, 15, 630.
https://doi.org/10.3390/f15040630

AMA Style

Gao Y, Li Z, Zhao L, Lyu J.
Effect of Heat Treatment on Hygroscopicity of Chinese Fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata [Lamb.] Hook.) Wood. Forests. 2024; 15(4):630.
https://doi.org/10.3390/f15040630

Chicago/Turabian Style

Gao, Yulei, Zhu Li, Liyuan Zhao, and Jianxiong Lyu.
2024. “Effect of Heat Treatment on Hygroscopicity of Chinese Fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata [Lamb.] Hook.) Wood” Forests 15, no. 4: 630.
https://doi.org/10.3390/f15040630

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