Plenary Lecture
Formaldehyde Emission Modeling Depending on Plywood Thickness at Different Testing Temperatures
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Professor Loredana Anne-Marie Badescu Department of Wood Processing and Design of Wood Products Faculty of Wood Engineering/Wood Machining Center of Excellence (CCSPL) Transilvania University of Brasov ROMANIA E-mail: loredana@unitbv.ro |
Dr. Octavia Zeleniuc Department of Wood Processing and Design of Wood Products Faculty of Wood Engineering/Wood Machining Center of Excellence (CCSPL) Transilvania University of Brasov ROMANIA E-mail: zoctavia@unitbv.ro |
Abstract: This paper presents a mathematical model for determining formaldehyde emission at plywood panels with different thickness, when the temperature is variation on the test condition. Modeling was performed based on the experimental results obtained at the determination of formaldehyde emission with the bottle method and results are a set of diagrams which can be appreciated the content and formaldehyde emission of plywood used in furniture construction.
Brief Biography of the Speakers:
Loredana Anne-Marie Badescu
-Professor dr eng at Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, Wood Engineering Faculty
-33 years teaching experience in the field of Wood processing
-Wood Machining Center of Excellence founder ( president from 2002 to present)
-Coordinated 5 successful national projects and acted as a collaborator in other 40 national and international research projects (LdV, CEEPUS, FP6, FP7)
-Coordinator in National Programme Researches PNII „Modelling to Sustainable Promotion of Wooden Products and Technologies with Impact on the Quality Environment.” The project aims to create and consolidate a package of procedures destined to reduce the entropic pressure over a basic component of the environment in the same time suggesting a model for eco-socio and economical sustainability. At present coordinator of two projects proposed in FP7 and ANR Bilateral programs Fr-Ro “Advancing knowledge on the assessment, verification, testing and modelling of noise, dust and VOC emissions from wood processing to promote a sustainable management of the wood chain”: and „Advanced knowledge, Modelling and Optimization on Structural wood components, of new ECO-products made with Welded WOOD dowels, with direct impact on environment in order to promote sustainable development”
- author of more than 150 papers published at national and international level, unique author for six books. And co-author in other 4 books.
Octavia Zeleniuc
Graduate of Wood Engineering Faculty, “TRANSILVANIA” University of Brasov, ROMANIA.
Senior research scientist grade II at National Institute of Wood Bucharest, between 1986 and 2004. In this institute, as head of laboratory, her work has been focused on wood drying and wood preservation. She received her Ph.D. in industrial engineering, in the field of beech timber drying, in 2000.
Since 2004, she has joined the Faculty of Wood Engineering having the competences in timber technology, wood treatments (drying and preservation) and wood testing: laboratory and field tests for wood durability evaluation, physical, mechanical properties, formaldehyde emissions from wood based products. She was Member in Management Committee COST E22 and COST E37 (2000-2008) and since 2010 she coordinates the activity of VOC & formaldehyde laboratory at RTD Research Institute Brasov.
Author and co-author in over 70 scientific articles published in Journals and in the Proceedings of National and International Conferences: Romania, Canada, Greece, France, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, UK, etc. Papers presented in some WSEAS Conferences in Brasov (2009), Tenerife (2009), Malta (2010) and Angers (2011).