The accompanying phenomenon of sanding is wood dust that poses a serious threat to the health of workers and employees as well as a significant fire and explosion hazard;it accelerates the wear of machines, worsens the quality of processing, and requires large financial outlays for its removal [21] [ ]the aim was to investigate the extent to which the grit size of sandpaper influences the size of the wood dust particles and the proportion of the finest particles which may constitute the respirable fraction [10] The grain size measurements of wood dust samples from selected tropical wood species were investigated, as well as the conditions under which wood composites are processed, e g , impact of thermal modification of wood composites surface saturated by steam and its influence on the particle size distribution of the sawing and milling process [8,9] With a compact Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass analyzer, integrated in a multifunctional focused-ion beam scanning-electron-microscope, it was possible to show that the Ga+ ion source could be detected and visualized in 3D ion molecular clusters specific to polymeric 4,4′-diphenyl methane diisocyanate (pMDI) adhesive and wood [10]
Application of Wood Composites