Journal
FORESTS
Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/f12070893
Keywords
sorting; log; Scots pine; bark; sawmill
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- National Centre for Research and Development [BIOS-TRATEG3/344303/14/NCBR/2018]
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The process of sorting softwood raw materials aims at full automation, using techniques like laser and optical scanning for measuring and sorting wood with bark. The thickness of the bark is influenced by various factors, with adopted diametral intervals playing a significant role for pine wood. Analysis of automatic sorting results revealed numerous cases of log-size mismatch.
The process of sorting softwood raw materials is aimed at full automation. Techniques such as laser and optical scanning, used in measuring and sorting wood raw material with the layer of bark, are based on an analysis of the external shape of the log. The consequence of this is the use of constant ranges of bark deductions, which are often affected by errors resulting from averaging the values. The thickness of the bark is influenced by many factors, such as the tree species and the quality of habitat in which the trees have grown. In the case of pine wood, the range of adopted diametral intervals for the processed raw material plays a significant role. The analysis of the automatic sorting results showed numerous cases of a log-size mismatch. In methods that assume the measurement of wood with the bark, deductions for bark should be made based on experiments that take into account the raw resources base. Despite the high correlation between the size of the deduction and the average thickness of the bark (r = 0.85), the mean value of an error of the adjustment to the maximum thickness of the bark in the automatic sorting was 45%. The maximum bark thickness for the analyzed sorting intervals was correlated. The level of the correlation coefficient value was r = 0.72. In order to increase the accuracy of the sorting process, the value of the deduction for bark should be adjusted to the maximum values in each sorting group.
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