Research activities and publications of the researchers of the project group and of the porject leader in 2011, that investigated possibilities of innovative utilisation of wood - liquefied wood, resulted in invitation to the researcher dr. Marko Petrič, to become a member of the editorial board of the established scientific journal, Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology (SCI IF in 2010: 0,98; II - engineering, chemical ; 65/134 ; quartil: 2; ). Despite the fact that M.Petrič became the editorial board member on the 1st January 2012, the achievement should be regarded as the achievement of work of all members of the research group in the year 2011.
C.06 Editorial board membership
COBISS.SI-ID: 34942720On the basis of the project programme and its results, in 2011 we made a successful application at the Slovene Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund (SHRDSF) for co-financing of the one year guest researcher stay of Dr Arnaud Maxime Cheumani Yona (from France, the citizenship of Cameroun). The contract (No. 11013-6/2011) was signed by the SHRDSF and Iltra, d.o.o. which is a collaborating research organisation at this project. His research work is predominantly performed in the laboratories of Biotechnical Faculty. Co-financing of the research of Dr Cheumani is considered as an achievement, since the competition for the funds of SHRDSF is high and we succeeded on the basis of the results of this project that were the starting point for Dr Cheumani's research programme in Slovenia. His research is complementary to the research programme of this project.
D.11 Other
In this research we liquefied cellulignin – the residue from tannin extraction and furfural production from chestnut wood (Castanea Sativa Mill.). We optimized the liquefied process of the cellulignin in glycerol (G) with sulfuric acid at 180 °C under atmospheric pressure. At first, we evaluated the effect of different reaction times on the liquefaction yield at a constant reaction temperature and constant solvent to cellulignin ratio. HP DSC analysis was then performed to investigate possible self-crosslinking ability of the liquefaction product. We detected two exothermal peaks (in the range from 160 °C to 250 °C and in the range from 350 °C to 400 °C, respectively). The first exothermal peak was attributed to the crosslinking chemical reaction of the reaction products and the second one was credited to re-crosslinking of the crosslinking products. It was concluded that liquefied cellulignin could be used as a feedstock in the production of adhesives and of wood coatings.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 1938569