Determination of moisture content in pine wood chips with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry

Determination of moisture content (mc) in pine wood chips is of interest to the pulp and paper industry. The gravimetric method used nowadays is reliable, but it is slow and labours. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the accuracy and precision when determining mc in pine wood chips with dual ene...

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Autor principal: Cano, Víctor Fernández
Formato: M2
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: SLU/Dept. of Forest Products 2009
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description Determination of moisture content (mc) in pine wood chips is of interest to the pulp and paper industry. The gravimetric method used nowadays is reliable, but it is slow and labours. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the accuracy and precision when determining mc in pine wood chips with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry. Also to see if the same algorithm could be used for both spruce and pine chips. This new method was evaluated and compared with the results achieved with the gravimetric method that was used as a reference. In this study 70 samples of pine wood chips ranging different mc were used. Mc was determined by both methods and results were analysed by regression analysis. This study showed positive results; standard error of estimate was 2.01%, standard deviation was 0.45%, and R2 value was 98%. These results were similar to an earlier study conducted with spruce wood chips. However the correlation between both methods lacked of accuracy when the mc was low. These results showed that it is needed to use a separate algorithm for pine wood chips.
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spelling RepoSLU4822012-04-20T14:09:48Z Determination of moisture content in pine wood chips with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry Cano, Víctor Fernández moisture content dual energy x-ray absorptiometry pine wood chips Determination of moisture content (mc) in pine wood chips is of interest to the pulp and paper industry. The gravimetric method used nowadays is reliable, but it is slow and labours. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the accuracy and precision when determining mc in pine wood chips with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry. Also to see if the same algorithm could be used for both spruce and pine chips. This new method was evaluated and compared with the results achieved with the gravimetric method that was used as a reference. In this study 70 samples of pine wood chips ranging different mc were used. Mc was determined by both methods and results were analysed by regression analysis. This study showed positive results; standard error of estimate was 2.01%, standard deviation was 0.45%, and R2 value was 98%. These results were similar to an earlier study conducted with spruce wood chips. However the correlation between both methods lacked of accuracy when the mc was low. These results showed that it is needed to use a separate algorithm for pine wood chips. SLU/Dept. of Forest Products 2009 M2 eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/482/
spellingShingle moisture content
dual energy x-ray absorptiometry
pine wood chips
Cano, Víctor Fernández
Determination of moisture content in pine wood chips with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry
title Determination of moisture content in pine wood chips with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry
title_full Determination of moisture content in pine wood chips with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry
title_fullStr Determination of moisture content in pine wood chips with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry
title_full_unstemmed Determination of moisture content in pine wood chips with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry
title_short Determination of moisture content in pine wood chips with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry
title_sort determination of moisture content in pine wood chips with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry
topic moisture content
dual energy x-ray absorptiometry
pine wood chips