Lorenzo (2011) - Wood : Types, Properties, and Uses

Title : Wood : Types, Properties, and Uses
Editor : Lorenzo F. Botannini
Publisher : Nova Science Pub. Inc. (March 30, 2011)
Pages : 257 pages
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1616688378
ISBN-13 : 978-1616688370

Description :
Wood is the most accessible and renewable material used by humankind during its history. Today, the consumption of wood exceeds all other known materials. The industry of various products made of wood grows continuously.
This book reviews research on hydrothermal treatment and modification of wood in the drying and impregnation process; the decomposition of coarse woody debris as an important component of the carbon cycle and biodivesity of forest ecosystems; and the potential of agroforestry as a carbon sequestration strategy.
Also discussed is the importance of fossil woods, types of preservation, and their significance in reconstructing the palaeo-climatology and paleo-environment of a region as well as the limitation in identifying the fossil woods.

Content :
Chapter 1 Hydrothermal Treatment and Modification of Wood: Drying, Impregnation
V. P. Kozhin and N. M. Gorbachev
Chapter 2 The Deep Decomposition of Wood: Light Products of Electron- Beam Fragmentation
A. V. Ponomarev and B. G. Ershov
Chapter 3 Biomass for Domestic and Agro Industrial Applications
N.L. Panwar
Chapter 4 Aboveground Wood Biomass and Nutrients in Brazilian Woody Species and Eucalyptus Plantations
Marcela C. Pagano
Chapter 5 Fungal Decomposition of Beech Coarse Woody Debris in a Temperate Forest Ecosystem
Yu Fukasawa, Takashi Osono and Hiroshi Takeda
Chapter 6 Effective Rainfall Seasons for Early and Late Wood Formation of Chinese Pine and Black Locust in the Loess Plateau, China
Satomi Koretsune, Kenji Fukuda, Zhaoyang Chang, Fuchen Shi, and Atsushi Ishida
Chapter 7 Fossil Wood: A Key to the Past
B. Ajaykumar, Shijo Joseph, P. C. Abhilash, Mahesh Mohan, K. Anitha and A. P. Thomas
Chapter 8 Plastic Moldable Pine Fiber by Benzylation
Armando G. McDonald and Lina Ma
Chapter 9 High Strength Phenol Formaldehyde (PF) Resin Impregnated Wood: Fundamental Analysis and Future Applications
Md. Iftekhar Shams and Hiroyuki Yano
Chapter 10 Crystallization and Melting Behaviour of Polypropylene / Wood Flour Composites 
R. Bouza, C. Marco, G. Ellis, Z. Martín, M.A. Gómez and L. Barral

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