 Recycling of wood waste as sustainable industrial resources—Design of energy saving wood-based board for floor heating systemsYoshihiro Obata, Kazutoshi Takeuchi, Naho Soma and Kozo Kanayama Energy, 2006, vol. 31, issue 13, 2341-2349 Abstract: Recycled wood has two important functions for sustainable development, as an industrial resource and as a means of longer storage of fixed carbon from carbon dioxide by photosynthesis. Recycled wood-based board, such as medium density fiberboard (MDF), is treated to produce a base material of floor heating system. The concept of functionally graded material (FGM) is introduced for the design of energy saving wood-based board. The heat transfer phenomenon of an FGM base plate used in a floor heating system is modeled and analyzed. The basic equation of the unsteady two-dimensional heat transfer problem and the analytical method for an FGM plate with wood material properties are proposed. The analytical method consists of the Laplace transformation and the perturbation method for arbitrary grading patterns. The results of the numerical calculation suggest that the optimum FGM wood-based board can save more energy than the homogeneous material. Keywords: Recycle; Wood waste; Resource; Storage of fixed CO2; Floor heating system; Energy saving; Wood-based board; FGM; Heat conduction problem (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:31:y:2006:i:13:p:2341-2349 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2006.02.001 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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