Polygon sawing : an optimum sawing pattern for oil palm stems.

The shortage in wood supply makes the effort to find alternative for wood material become more and more important. It was reported that the outer parts of oil palm stems could be used as solid wood after being properly treated. Being a monocotyledon, oil palm stems have a contradictory characteristi...

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Main Authors: Bakar, Edi Suhaimi, Febrianto, Fauzi, Wahyudi, Imam, Ashaari, Zaidon
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Published: Asian Network for Scientific Information 2006
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7418/
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author Bakar, Edi Suhaimi
Febrianto, Fauzi
Wahyudi, Imam
Ashaari, Zaidon
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Febrianto, Fauzi
Wahyudi, Imam
Ashaari, Zaidon
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description The shortage in wood supply makes the effort to find alternative for wood material become more and more important. It was reported that the outer parts of oil palm stems could be used as solid wood after being properly treated. Being a monocotyledon, oil palm stems have a contradictory characteristic to the conventional hardwoods and softwoods and thus the sawing patterns suitable for hardwoods and softwoods should not be suitable for the oil palm stems. Two modified sawing patterns (polygon sawing and cobweb sawing) plus one ordinary sawing pattern (life sawing) were compared in the sawing of oil palm stems. The purpose of this study was to find the most suitable sawing pattern for oil palm stems. The cobweb sawing provided the highest outer lumber recovery (35%) followed by polygon sawing (27%) and life sawing (23%). The polygon sawing provided the highest occurrence of wide lumbers, followed by the cobweb sawing and life sawing. The cobweb sawing need more than twice effective sawing time (15.4 min) than the life sawing and polygon sawing. In overall, the polygon sawing was the most suitable pattern for the sawing of oil palm stem.
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spelling upm-74182015-09-07T06:40:04Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7418/ Polygon sawing : an optimum sawing pattern for oil palm stems. Bakar, Edi Suhaimi Febrianto, Fauzi Wahyudi, Imam Ashaari, Zaidon The shortage in wood supply makes the effort to find alternative for wood material become more and more important. It was reported that the outer parts of oil palm stems could be used as solid wood after being properly treated. Being a monocotyledon, oil palm stems have a contradictory characteristic to the conventional hardwoods and softwoods and thus the sawing patterns suitable for hardwoods and softwoods should not be suitable for the oil palm stems. Two modified sawing patterns (polygon sawing and cobweb sawing) plus one ordinary sawing pattern (life sawing) were compared in the sawing of oil palm stems. The purpose of this study was to find the most suitable sawing pattern for oil palm stems. The cobweb sawing provided the highest outer lumber recovery (35%) followed by polygon sawing (27%) and life sawing (23%). The polygon sawing provided the highest occurrence of wide lumbers, followed by the cobweb sawing and life sawing. The cobweb sawing need more than twice effective sawing time (15.4 min) than the life sawing and polygon sawing. In overall, the polygon sawing was the most suitable pattern for the sawing of oil palm stem. Asian Network for Scientific Information 2006 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7418/1/Polygon%20sawing.pdf Bakar, Edi Suhaimi and Febrianto, Fauzi and Wahyudi, Imam and Ashaari, Zaidon (2006) Polygon sawing : an optimum sawing pattern for oil palm stems. Journal of Biological Sciences, 6 (4). pp. 744-749. ISSN 1727-3048 http://dx.doi.org/10.3923/jbs.2006.744.749 10.3923/jbs.2006.744.749 English
spellingShingle Bakar, Edi Suhaimi
Febrianto, Fauzi
Wahyudi, Imam
Ashaari, Zaidon
Polygon sawing : an optimum sawing pattern for oil palm stems.
title Polygon sawing : an optimum sawing pattern for oil palm stems.
title_full Polygon sawing : an optimum sawing pattern for oil palm stems.
title_fullStr Polygon sawing : an optimum sawing pattern for oil palm stems.
title_full_unstemmed Polygon sawing : an optimum sawing pattern for oil palm stems.
title_short Polygon sawing : an optimum sawing pattern for oil palm stems.
title_sort polygon sawing : an optimum sawing pattern for oil palm stems.
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7418/1/Polygon%20sawing.pdf