Effects of Heat Treatment on Color, Dimensional Stability, Hygroscopicity and Chemical Structure of Afrormosia and Newtonia Wood: A Comparative Study of Air and Palm Oil Medium

In recent years, China is increasingly dependent on imported wood. Afrormosia and Newtonia are some of the imported species with good utilization potential. However, both of them also have problems with poor dimensional stability. In order to make better use of these two types of wood, the influence of heat treatment under air and palm oil conditions on the color, dimensional stability, and hygroscopicity of Afrormosia and Newtonia was investigated. The Afrormosia and Newtonia wood samples were heated in air or palm oil medium for two hours at 160 °C, 180 °C and 200 °C, respectively. Then, the color, weight changes, swelling, moisture absorption and chemical structure were evaluated for each case. As results, the heat treatments with air or palm oil increased the dark color of Newtonia and Afrormosia wood and this increase was proportional to the treatment temperature. The tangential and radial swelling coefficient for air heat treatment of Afrormosia wood at 200 °C were, respectively, reduced by 24.59% and 19.58%, while this reduction for Newtonia was 21.32% and 14.80%. The heat treatment in palm oil further improved the stability and hygroscopicity of the wood, showing that the Afrormosia samples treated by palm oil at 200 °C underwent a decrease of its tangential and radial swelling coefficient, respectively, by 49.34% and 45.88%, whereas the tangential and radial swelling coefficient of Newtonia treated under the same conditions were reduced by 42.85% and 33.63%, respectively. The heat treatments of Afrormosia and Newtonia samples under air at 200 °C diminished the water absorption by 21.67% and 22.12%. The water absorption of Afrormosia and Newtonia heat-treated under palm oil at 200 °C was reduced, respectively, by 39.40% and 37.49%. Moreover, the FTIR analysis showed the decrease of hydroxyl groups in proportion to the wood treatment temperature.

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