Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology

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Study on Rapid Measurement of Wood Powder Concentration of Wood-Plastic Composites using FT-NIR and FT-IR Spectroscopy Techniques

  • Cho, Byoung-kwan (Department of Bio-systems Machinery Engineering, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Lohoumi, Santosh (Department of Bio-systems Machinery Engineering, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Choi, Chul (Department of Bio-based Materials, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Yang, Seong-min (Department of Bio-based Materials, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kang, Seog-goo (Department of Bio-based Materials, Chungnam National University)
  • Received : 2016.10.05
  • Accepted : 2016.11.08
  • Published : 2016.11.25
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Abstract

Wood-plastic composite (WPC) is a promising and sustainable material, and refers to a combination of wood and plastic along with some binding (adhesive) materials. In comparison to pure wood material, WPCs are in general have advantages of being cost effective, high durability, moisture resistance, and microbial resistance. The properties of WPCs come directly from the concentration of different components in composite; such as wood flour concentration directly affect mechanical and physical properties of WPCs. In this study, wood powder concentration in WPC was determined by Fourier transform near-infrared (FT-NIR) and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The reflectance spectra from WPC in both powdered and tableted form with five different concentrations of wood powder were collected and preprocessed to remove noise caused by several factors. To correlate the collected spectra with wood powder concentration, multivariate calibration method of partial least squares (PLS) was applied. During validation with an independent set of samples, good correlations with reference values were demonstrated for both FT-NIR and FT-IR data sets. In addition, high coefficient of determination (${R^2}_p$) and lower standard error of prediction (SEP) was yielded for tableted WPC than powdered WPC. The combination of FT-NIR and FT-IR spectral region was also studied. The results presented here showed that the use of both zones improved the determination accuracy for powdered WPC; however, no improvement in prediction result was achieved for tableted WPCs. The results obtained suggest that these spectroscopic techniques are a useful tool for fast and nondestructive determination of wood concentration in WPCs and have potential to replace conventional methods.

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