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The effect of the feed rate and revolutions of the cutting tool on the amounts of created chips in dust and respirable sizes from milling particleboards, and medium-density fibreboards
The CNC finish milling of wood-based materials creates chips in a wide size range, where considerable amounts were found even below <10.0μm. The presented article studied the effect of technological variables on determined amounts of chips in dust sizes and respirable range from medium-density fibreboards (MDF) and particleboards (PTCB). The materials were milled at a constant width of cut (ae) by 1mm, with the feed speed (vf) in the range of 6, 8, 10, and 12m·min-1, and with revolutions of the cutting tool (n) in the range of 16,000; 18,000; and 20,000revs·min-1. In dust size, we cover chips in the size range below <0.125mm, and respirable size below <10.0μm. The dust sizes from collected chip samples were determined by sieve analysis with pre-defined mesh sizes by weighting the retained mass on specific sieves and with the laser analysis we estimated the amounts of chips in sizes <10.0μm. The number of chips in the dust size ranged for MDF by 34.7-40.8w% and in PTCB by 38.1-54.7w%. Amount of chips in respirable size for MDF by 0.01-18% and for PTCB by 0.01-4.5% of the total mass volume. Increasing the (vf) from 6 to 12m/min significantly lowered amounts of Fine and chips in respirable size (p<0.05) in PTCB, no matter on adjusted cutting tool (n). In MDF such effect was observed only with (n) 20000revs/min for respirable sizes.
Influence of thermal modification and sanding parameters on finest particle content in pinewood dust
Tilt angle of wood dust
Tilt Angle of Wood Dust. The aim of this article is to point out a risk factor – wood dust, which settles on various structures, inclined surfaces in operation and, if not regularly cleaned, it is a source of secondary dust, because it is swirled up again with any movement. By measuring the tilt angle of bulk wood material obtained from sawing on a table circular saw, using different saw blades and wood dust from longitudinal and transverse sanding on a hand belt sander, we determined which characteristics affect it. We found that the size of the particles is an important characteristic, the larger they are, the smaller the tilt angle and also the surface of the pad on which the dust particles settle, wood did not play a significant role in this case. The smallest tilt angle was measured for sawdust from longitudinal sawing of 27, and the largest tilt angle for wood dust from transverse sanding of oak and was 57 on beech pad