Properties of new thermal insulation material from low-quality pine wood

Recently growing number of low quality wood in Ukraine, damaged by fungal sap color, stem rot leads to finding ways to use it. Today this wood is used mainly for the manufacture of wood-fuels facility in industrial and municipal energy. A possible way to use it is making insulation material from wood wool. The existing prototype of such material - fibrolite contains woody wool of healthy wood but during burning emits toxic chemicals. The construction of wooden wall panels, which include a frame of lumber and thermal insulation material of wood wool, made of low quality pine wood and binder. The binder used were inorganic (liquid glass) and organic-mineral (PVA) dispersion with the addition of flame retardant. Investigation of fire resistance, acoustic and thermal insulation of material from low quality pine wood have proved that it meets the regulatory requirements and can be used in building structures. To develop technological requirements for the manufacture of wall panels using low-quality pine wood, it is necessary to determine their density, sorption capacity and bio-stability. For this purpose, samples of thermal insulation material with different content of mass parts of wood wool and binder were made. The density of specimens of insulating material (145‒250 kg/m3), which is close to the popular hard thermal insulation materials, has been determined. Experimental studies of moisture absorption, sorption capacity and swelling values indicated that the effect of moisture on the properties of insulating material and its shape resistance are within the permissible values of regulatory documents for construction products. Wood treated with binders found to be used for the manufacture of insulation material has been found to have high biological resistance, which is more than 5-6 times the bio-resistance of untreated wood.