Solute diffusion into cell walls in solution-impregnated wood under conditioning process II: effect of solution concentration on solute diffusion

Published Date
April 2016, Volume 62, Issue 2, pp 146–155

Title 
Solute diffusion into cell walls in solution-impregnated wood under conditioning process II: effect of solution concentration on solute diffusion

Author 

Soichi Tanaka, 

Masako Seki, 

Tsunehisa Miki, 

Ichinori Shigematsu, 

Kozo Kanayama

Original article

First Online: 

22 February 2016

DOI: 10.1007/s10086-016-1539-6

Cite this article as: 

Tanaka, S., Seki, M., Miki, T. et al. J Wood Sci (2016) 62: 146. doi:10.1007/s10086-016-1539-6

Abstract

This study focused on solute diffusing into cell walls in solution-impregnated wood during conditioning, process of moderate drying of solvent. To clarify the effect of solution concentration on the diffusion during the conditioning, weight percent gain (WPG) and relative swelling of the wood sample impregnated with an aqueous solution of polyethylene glycol (PEG) polymers at a concentration of 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50 mass% were examined during the conditioning and subsequent drying processes. The relation between the concentration and the relative swelling after all processes, an indicator of the amount of the polymers in cell walls, exhibited a concave-downward curve with a maximum value at 20 mass%. The estimated mass of the polymers in cell walls just before conditioning increased with the concentration. This indicates that the distribution of the polymers changed during conditioning. The estimated mass just before conditioning and the relative swelling after all processes were normalized to the packing ratios of the polymers in cell walls. The ratio after all processes subtracted by that just before conditioning was larger than the ratio just before conditioning, and increased with the concentration up to 20 mass%; after which it decreased. This indicates that the majority of the polymers in cell walls increased during conditioning, and that the amount of the polymers that diffused into cell walls was at the maximum at concentration of 20 mass%. This was explained by two factors: the decrease in the diffusivity into cell walls and in the concentration difference of the polymers between cell walls and cell cavity with the concentration, based on the behavior of WPG during conditioning; and the estimated minimum concentration at which the solution contains the least amount of polymers to fill the cell walls.

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