In the frame of the visit in Oregon State University, Miha Humar introduced students, PhD students and employees the ongoing research work on the field of the protection of wood with hydrophobic agents.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 2091145In the international conference, that was organized under umbrella of two COST actions, the innovative approach for prevention of photodegradaton was introduced. Namely, treatment of wood with wax emulsions. Weathering-graying of wood is one of the least desired properties of wood by the consumers. Consumers wants to slow down graying of wood as much as possible.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2150537In the garden of the Department of Wood Science and Technology, wa model object was build in order to set-monitored-evaluate the service life of the wood in outdoor applications. We focused on domestic wood species, which can be protected in several ways. This can be performed with proper installation, and particularly with proper impregnation of wood or modification. This facility is build of the most important domestic species. Some of them are protected with the biocidal product Silvanolin, wax emulsion Silvacera or thermally modified procedure Silvapro. For comparison, we installed a parallel not durable and durable wood that is subject to decay. Overall, in the house 24 different materials are used. All pieces of wood are numbered. On only those we regularly monitor the humidity, color and fungal colonistaion of wood.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice