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Thermal analysis of heat-treated silver fir wood and larval frass

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Among the widespread pests belongs Hylotrupes bajulus, which attacks mostly wooden beams in the roof of the houses. Heat sterilisation of wood is used to kill all forms of pests (eggs, larvae, adults) in solid wood materials. We compared thermal stability of heat sterilised silver fir wood to larval frass in regard to fire safety. The samples were treated at 60 and 120 °C for 10 h. Methods of chemical analysis, thermal analysis and statistical analysis were used. During the heat sterilisation of silver fir wood, only the amount of hemicelluloses decreased significantly. In larval frass samples, the holocellulose fraction decreased during the heat treatment. The hemicellulose yields in the larval frass samples were about 12% lower in average than in the wood samples. The major thermal degradation started at lower temperatures for untreated samples than for the heat-treated samples for both, silver fir wood and larval frass. Therefore, heat sterilisation does not deteriorate fire safety of wooden parts of buildings and can be used without significant alteration of the wood composition and properties.

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This work was supported by the VEGA agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Sport of the Slovak Republic (No. 1/0521/15) (50%) and by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under contract No. APVV-0057-12 (50%).

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology, Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 24, 960 53, Zvolen, Slovakia

    František Kačík, Jana Luptáková & Tatiana Bubeníková

  2. Thermo Sanace, Chamrádová 475/23, 718 00, Ostrava-Kunčičky, Czechia

    Pavel Šmíra & Andrea Nasswettrová

  3. Department of Fire Protection, Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology, Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 24, 960 53, Zvolen, Slovakia

    Danica Kačíková

  4. Department of Material Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Kosice, Vysokoškolská 4, 042 00, Kosice, Slovakia

    Adriana Eštoková

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Kačík, F., Luptáková, J., Šmíra, P. et al. Thermal analysis of heat-treated silver fir wood and larval frass. J Therm Anal Calorim 130, 755–762 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-017-6463-5

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