raw material The basic unit constituting the fiberboard is a separate wood fiber or fiber bundle. The raw materials for fiber production mainly come from forest harvesting residues, such as branches, tips, small diameter materials, etc.; and wood processing residues, such as edge, shavings, sawdust and so on. In addition, wastes from chemical processing of forest products (such as silicone and hydrolyzed residues) and other plant stems can be used to make fibers. The fiber content of the softwood is high, and the fiber length is 30 to 50% longer than that of the broadleaf. If hardwood is used, it must be treated first: it can be mixed with needles and hardwoods, or chemically treated with wood chips. Hot water and steam can also be used. Before the fiber separation, the raw material was cut into pieces of 20 to 30 mm, 3 to 5 mm thick, and 15 to 25 mm in width by a chipper. The wood chips are too large, and it is difficult to soften or soften unevenness during the pre-heat treatment and refining process, and the fiber separation degree is small; when the wood chips are too short, the proportion of the fibers to be cut is large, and the interlacing performance is poor, resulting in a decrease in the strength of the fiberboard. The cut wood chips are sent to the silo after screening, re-crushing, washing, etc., in preparation for fiber separation. Production Process There are three types of wet, dry and semi-dry methods. The wet production process uses water as a carrier for fiber transportation. The mechanism is to make a certain strength by using the fibers intertwined to produce friction, the binding force between the fibers on the surface of the fibers, and the binding force generated by the fibers. Fiberboard. The dry production process uses air as the fiber transport carrier. The fiber is prepared by a single separation method. Generally, the resin is not subjected to fine grinding, and the adhesive is applied. The fiber is dried before the slab is formed, and is usually not heat treated after hot pressing into a plate. Same as wet method. The semi-dry process is also formed by air flow, the fiber is maintained at a high water content without drying, and the rubber is not used or used, so the semi-dry method overcomes the main disadvantages of the dry and wet processes and maintains some of its advantages. Basic process content It is fiber separation → slurry treatment → slab forming → hot pressing → post-treatment (see picture). 1 Fiber separation. Also known as pulping, it is the process of separating pulping materials into fibers. The fiber separation method can be divided into two major categories: mechanical method and blasting method, wherein the mechanical method is divided into thermal mechanical method, chemical mechanical method and pure mechanical method. The thermal mechanical method first treats the raw materials with hot water or saturated steam to soften or partially dissolve the intercellular layers of the fibers, and separate them into fibers by mechanical force under normal pressure or high pressure, and then finely grind through a disc refiner ( Dry fiberboard pulping is generally not refined. The fiber pulp produced by this method has complete fiber shape, strong interlacing, good water drainage and high yield. The yield of softwood pulp can reach 90-95%. The power consumption is small; the length of the fiber is shortened after the fine grinding, the specific surface area is increased, the outer layer and the end portion are deuterated, the water swelling property is improved, the softness, the plasticity is increased, and the interlacing property is good. Therefore, the thermomechanical method is the main pulping method used in the domestic and foreign fiberboard industries. The chemical mechanical method uses a small amount of chemicals, such as caustic soda, sodium sulfite, etc. to pretreat the raw materials, so that the lignin and hemicellulose are damaged or dissolved to some extent, and then separated into fibers by mechanical force. The pure mechanical method is to directly pulverize the fiber raw material into water after being soaked in water, and according to the shape of the raw material, it is divided into a log refining method and a wood chip refining method, and the method is rarely applied. The blasting method is to heat the raw material in a high-pressure vessel with a pressure of 4 MPa for a short time (about 30 seconds) to soften the lignin, partially hydrolyze the carbohydrate, and then raise the vapor pressure to 7-8 MPa, keeping 4 to 5 seconds, then quickly start the valve, the fiber raw material is blasted into floc fiber or fiber bundle. 2 Slurry treatment. That is, according to the use of the product, waterproofing, reinforcement, fire resistance and anti-corrosion treatment are separately carried out to improve the performance of the finished product. Hard and semi-hard fiberboard pulps should be treated with paraffin emulsion to improve water resistance, while soft board pulp can be used with both rosin and paraffin-rosin emulsions. The application of the water repellent can be carried out in a slurry tank or a continuous glue box. The reinforcing agent used for the reinforcement treatment is soluble in water, can be adsorbed by the fiber, and can be adapted to the hot pressing or drying process of the fiberboard, and the hard fiber board is mostly made of phenolic resin glue. Refractory treatment to apply refractory agents such as FeNH4PO4 and MgNH4PO4 is more common. The addition of pentachlorophenol or pentachlorophenol copper salt to the slurry serves as an antiseptic. The treated slurry is dried or dried for drying; or after being adjusted to a concentration, it is directly introduced into a molding machine for wet forming to form a wet slab having a certain specification and having a preliminary compactness. Dry production of fiberboard requires a fiber moisture content of 6 to 8% at hot pressing, and a slurry moisture content of 40 to 60% after sizing, so it is necessary to dry before molding. The fiber drying can be carried out by two kinds of pipe airflow drying methods: the first drying method temperature is 250-350 ° C, the time is 5-7 seconds; the second-stage drying method first temperature is 160-180 ° C, and the water content is reduced to 20%. The second stage temperature is 140-150 ° C, the water content is reduced to 6-8%, and the total time of the two-stage drying is about 12 seconds. The drying equipment has three types: straight tube type, pulse type and casing type. 3 Slab forming has two types: wet forming and dry forming. The soft board and most hard boards are formed by wet molding; the medium density board and some hard boards are dry formed. The low-concentration slurry for wet forming is gradually dehydrated to form a slab. The basic methods include box-frame molding, long-net molding, and round mesh molding. The box frame molding is to pump the slurry with a concentration of about 1% from the slurry pump into a bottomless box frame placed on the pad net, vacuum dewatering at the bottom of the box, and pressure dehydration at the top of the box frame. This method is mainly used for production. Soft fiberboard. The equipment used for long net forming is similar to the long net paper machine in the paper industry. The 1.2~2.0% concentration slurry is copied from the net front box to the long net, and the wet slab is formed by self-weight dehydration, vacuum dehydration, and roller press dehydration, and the water content is 65-70%. Rotary net forming is also transplanted from the paper industry. In the production of fiberboard, vacuum single-web type is used. The slurry concentration is 0.75~1.5%. It is adsorbed on the circular net by vacuum working slurry and dehydrated by roller. And control the thickness of the slab. Most of the dry forming uses an air flow forming machine. The dried fibers to which paraffin wax and adhesive (phenolic resin) are applied are fed into the paving head by a gas stream, and the dry fibers are uniformly dropped on the mat to form a slab by the action of the fiber weight and the vacuum box under the mat. Semi-dry forming uses mechanical or air flow forming machines. By the action of mechanical force or airflow, the agglomerated fibers with high water content are dispersed and uniformly dropped to form a wet slab of a gradual structure or a mixed structure. However, it is difficult to completely disperse the wet fiber agglomeration phenomenon by mechanical force or airflow. In actual production, the slab density uniformity is poor, which easily affects product quality. In the early 1970s, successful research on dry fiber static orientation molding in the United States. The soft fiberboard and the hard fiberboard using the wet forming dry hot pressing process (also known as wet drying method), the slabs are dried. Drying equipment is available in both batch and continuous types. Drying 1 kg of water consumes 1.6 to 1.8 kg of vapor. The final moisture content of the soft fiber slab after drying is from 1 to 3%. When the hard fiberboard is manufactured by the wet-drying method, the moisture content of the slab is not too high, otherwise bubbling is apt to occur during hot pressing. 4 hot pressing. The wet process for producing hardboard requires a pressure of 5 MPa and a dry method of 7 MPa. Above this pressure, the bending strength is reduced. The pressure required for the semi-dry method is between 6 MPa. The wet-formed slab is pressed into a hard fiberboard at a pressure of up to 10 MPa. The temperature used in the wet pressing method is 200 to 220 °C. There is no drying stage when dry pressing, the temperature is based on the rapid curing of the adhesive, generally 180 ~ 200 ° C; when using hardwood as raw material, the hot pressing temperature can be appropriately increased, up to 260 ° C. The semi-dry hot pressing temperature should not exceed 200 ° C to prevent the melting of lignin and sugar pyrolysis coking in the slab, so that the strength of the product is significantly reduced. The temperature required to produce a hard board by wet drying is 230 to 250 °C. During the hot pressing process, the temperature difference between the surface layer and the core layer of the slab may occur, and the temperature difference of the core layer of the medium-density slab having a large thickness may reach 40 to 60 ° C, which affects the curing rate of the core resin. Conventional heating and high frequency heating can be used to eliminate temperature differences and shorten the hot pressing cycle. 5 post processing. The wet and semi-dry fiberboards are subjected to heat treatment and humidity conditioning after hot pressing, and the dry fiberboards are directly subjected to humidity conditioning without heat treatment. The surface of the medium-density fiberboard needs to be sanded, and the surface of the soft fiberboard sometimes needs to be slotted and punched. When the hard fiberboard is used as the interior wallboard, the surface can be opened with a "V" groove or a striped groove. The surface processing of fiberboard is usually done by two methods of coating and covering (see the surface decoration of wood-based panels). As for the embossing, indentation, and deep indentation of the surface of the rough sawing material, most of them are formed once during the hot pressing of the slab, which is not a reworking range. 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