Preparing Carbon Bactericide Sorbents from Waste Wood Boards

Automated Visual Inspection: Wood Boards

The majority of scientific papers focusing on wood classification for pencil manufacturing take into account defects and visual appearance. Traditional methodologies are based on texture analysis by co-occurrence matrix, by image modeling, or by tonal measures over the plate surface. In this work, we propose to classify plates of wood without biological defects like insect holes, nodes, and cra...

Inorganic Pollutants in Recovered Wood from Slovenia and Boards Made of Disintegrated Wood

Due to increasing demands on wood, recovered wood is becoming more and more important. It is mainly used for energetic purposes and for particle board production. This material was polluted with various chemicals (surface coatings, biocides, concrete residues, etc.) during service life. These chemicals causes difficulties at the end of service life. In order to elucidate presence of inorganic p...

Life-Cycle Carbon from Waste Wood Used in District Heating and Other Alternatives

Using wood wastes provides an opportunity to avoid fossil carbon emissions from the combustion of natural gas or other fossil fuels. Using a life-cycle assessment, a new biomass boiler sourced by forest residuals, sawmill residuals, and clean demolition material (CDM) was compared with an existing natural gas boiler for supplying heat to a large-scale district heating system. Potential alternat...

Preparing a Waste Management Plan

Delveloment and Evaluation of Non-carbon Sorbents

Executive Summary Western Research Institute (WRI) and its cosponsor Novinda Corporation (the Company was originally known as Amended Silicates, Inc.) proposed the development, characterization and testing of sorbents based on clay deposits abundant in Wyoming for the in-flight capture of mercury in pulverized coal derived flue gasses. As a part of the State of Wyoming’s Clean Coal Technologies...