Inorganic Pollutants in Recovered Wood from Slovenia and Boards Made of Disintegrated Wood
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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 pollutants in Slovenian recovered wood, 30 specimens were collected on city Ljubljana dump/sorting site, and analysed with x-ray fluorescence spectrometer (XRF).Those values were compared to the concentration of inorganic elements in boards made of disintegrated wood collected in Slovenian market.In recovered wood, as well as in imported particle boards increased concentrations of the following elements was confirmed: Cl, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn and Pb.This indicates that at lest part of contaminated recovered wood is used for production of some particle boards.
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The metal present in WPW could also come from the panel manufacturing process, which involves cutting and/or grinding tools.
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- Authors
- Humar, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Ljubljana (SI)
- Corresponding author
- Humar, Miha
- ORCID
- Humar, Miha
- Venue
- The Open Environmental Engineering Journal
- Publisher
- Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
- Published
- 2010-01-01
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 49-54
- ISSN
- 1874-8295 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1982727281
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Open Environmental Engineering Journal (publishedVersion)
- Repository of the University of Ljubljana (University of Ljubljana) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS (P4-0015, and P4-)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Heavy metals in environment
- Keywords
- recovered wood, inorganic contaminants, particleboard, heavy metals, chlorine, lead, zinc, copper, iron, chromium, wood waste
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