Search for dissertations about: "wood quality"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 186 swedish dissertations containing the words wood quality.
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1. Wood Fingerprints : Recognition of Sawn Wood Products
Abstract : This thesis deals with wood fingerprints and presents ways to track sawn wood products through an industrial process using cameras. The possibility to identify individual wood products comes from the biological variation of the trees, where the genetic code, environment and breakdown process creates a unique appearance for every board. READ MORE
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2. Improving Wood Fuel Pellets for Household Use : Perspectives on Quality, Efficiency and Environment
Abstract : Bioenergy is one of many contributors to reducing the use of fossil fuels in order to mitigate climate change by decreasing CO2-emissions, and the potential for biofuels are large. The wood fuel pellets are a refined biofuel made of sawdust, which is dried and compressed to achieve improved fuel and transportation properties. READ MORE
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3. Colour – A Reliable Quality-Control Tool for Industrial Thermowood® Production
Abstract : The objective of the work presented in this doctoral thesis has been to correlate the commercial output of ThermoWood® process with a pre-defined, quantifiable, non-destructive measurable parameter - colour, and to show the feasibility of measurements to be the essential part of the internal and external quality-control system. Colour is the most evident property changed of thermally-modified timber (TMT). READ MORE
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4. On reflections of wood : wood quality features modelled by means of multivariate image projections to latent structures in multispectral images
Abstract : Classifying logs and boards has an essential economic impact on the forest products industry. In a modern production chain, quality control and raw material specifications are essential to fulfill production system demands as well as end user demands. READ MORE
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5. Development towards an efficient and sustainable biofuel drying
Abstract : The usage of biofuel as well as wood fuel has increased in Sweden and all of Europe during recent decades, and there are several reasons to believe that this increase will continue. An important reason for this increase is that the environmental and climate problems caused by fossil fuels are becoming even more evident. READ MORE
