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Irene Raya-Moreno, Rosa Cañizares, Xavier Domene, Vicenç Carabassa and Josep Maria Alcañiz
The goal of this study was to evaluate biochar?s resistance to microbial decomposition and its impact on native soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition. Conducted in a vineyard with a sandy loam Mediterranean soil with neutral pH and low organic carbon c...
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Stanislava Ga?percová, Iveta Marková, Miroslava Vandlícková, Linda Makovická Osvaldová and Jozef Svetlík
This paper presents the results of monitoring the behaviour of selected wood species exposed to a small ignition initiator. We specifically aimed to investigate the effect of retardant coating on the combustion process of the wood species spruce (Picea a...
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Ebrahim Hajian, José Couceiro, Lars Hansson and Dick Sandberg
Determining moisture content (MC) distribution during the drying of porous materials such as wood is crucial for developing drying schedules and assessing their suitability to achieve optimised processes. This study aimed to determine the causes of the u...
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Tadeusz Malewski, Piotr Borowik, Ireneusz Olejarski, Artur Rutkiewicz, Adam Okorski and Tomasz Oszako
Afforestation of former agricultural land poses a real challenge for foresters because soil life is often severely limited by the loss of natural soil fungal diversity. In addition, former agricultural soils have low levels of fungal species typical of f...
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Giulia Boccacci, Francesca Frasca, Chiara Bertolin and Anna Maria Siani
Among non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques applied to structural health monitoring in existing timber structures, ranging from visual inspection to more sophisticated analysis, acoustic emission (AE) is currently seldomly used to detect mechanical st...
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Luísa Cruz-Lopes, Morgana Macena, Bruno Esteves and Isabel Santos-Vieira
Four lignocellulosic materials (walnut shell, chestnut shell, pine wood and burnt pine wood) were analyzed as biosorbents to remove nickel ions in aqueous solution. The optimal pH condition was determined. Due to this, a range of different pHs (3.0 to 7....
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Shirin M. Usmani, Linn Voss, Ina Stephan, Thomas Hübert and Erhard Kemnitz
Low-water soluble metal fluorides such as magnesium fluoride (MgF2) and calcium fluoride (CaF2) were evaluated for decay protection of wood. Initially, the biocidal efficacy of nano metal fluorides (NMFs) against wood destroying fungi was assessed with a...
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Maija Kymäläinen, Jakub Dömény and Lauri Rautkari
Surface carbonization, or charring, of wooden cladding boards is a promising, low impact process that can substitute inorganic coatings. The char surface is inert and hydrophobic and possibly a long-lasting solution for exterior uses. To determine the pe...
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Ivan Klement, Peter Vilkovský and Tatiana Vilkovská
In wood processing, wood is exposed to an environmental temperature of less than 0 °C for some time, which mainly occurs during the air drying of wood in the winter months, or when lumber is stored in wood piles outdoors before the kiln drying process. I...
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Maciej Sydor, Radoslaw Mirski, Kinga Stuper-Szablewska and Tomasz Rogozinski
We hypothesized that the type of wood, in combination with the grit size of sandpapers, would affect sanding efficiency. Fixed factors were used in the experiment (a belt sander with pressure p = 3828 Pa, and a belt speed of vs = 14.5 m/s) as well as var...
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