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  • Wood based products and climate changes
    Medved, Sergej
    Wood is our only naturally renewable raw material. From the environmental point of view wood plays important role. During its growth it absorbs CO2, which is later stored in the products. The CO2 ... stored in the wood is during combustion released into the climate, but because no additional CO2 is createdthe combustion of wood is a CO2 neutral operation. But to tackle the climate changes combustion of wood is not the only approach. One of the possible or one could say even one of the best approach would be to emphasize the use of wood and products out of wood. One cubic meter of wood can reduce the CO2 emissions from fossils fuels up to 1 tone, not only via replacement of fossil fuels, but also by using it. For wood production less energy is required for manufacturing, and also a lot of energy needed by wood working industry is generated from its own resources (wood residues/waste wood, bark, etc). Wood based panels as widely used material is mostly out of wood, especially from wood residues so one can say that this industry contributes to the sustainable use of natural resources. And since they are made mostly out of wood, they also store CO2. And this is not their only advantage. Second very important advantage is also its thermal properties. Like wood, they have good isolation properties (especially low density fibrous materials), hence contributing to lower energy consumption when used as a building material (wooden houses, prefabricated houses, passive houses, etc). The aim of this paper is to show the possibilities that wood based products offer to us as a material that reduces the emission of CO2.
    Vir: An European wood processing strategy: future resources matching products and innovations : May 30th and June 2nd-3rd 2008, Milan, Italy (Str. 127-134)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2008
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1649289

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