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HOLZFORSCHUNG
Volume 64, Issue 4, Pages 429-433Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER & CO
DOI: 10.1515/HF.2010.070
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adhesives; environmental analysis; formaldehyde emission; no-added formaldehyde (NAF) adhesive; soy-based adhesives; wood adhesion
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Hot-pressing wood, particularly in the production of wood composites, generates significant native (wood-based) formaldehyde (FA), even in the absence of adhesive. The level of native FA relates directly to the time and temperature of hot-pressing. This native FA dissipates in a relatively short time and is not part of the long-term FA emission issue commonly associated with hydrolyzing urea-formaldehyde bonds. This paper demonstrates that the common desiccator/chromotropic acid method is very specific for FA and is not influenced by other volatile compounds set free from wood during hot-pressing. Furthermore, it is shown that particle-board produces native FA at high levels even in the absence of adhesives or in the presence of one type of no-added formaldehyde (NAF) adhesive. Soy-based adhesives suppress native FA emission and provide low FA emission levels in both the short and long term. This study highlights an often overlooked aspect that should be considered for emission testing: standardizing the time and conditions employed immediately after pressing and prior to the onset of emissions testing. Addressing this issue in more detail would improve the reliability of correlation between data obtained by rapid process monitoring methods and emission measurements in large chambers.
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