Effects of Hygrothermal Environment in Cooling Towers on the Chemical Composition of Bamboo Grid Packing

• Published in: Forests Vol. 10; no. 3; p. 274
• Main Authors: Chen, Li-Sheng, Fei, Ben-Hua, Ma, Xin-Xin, Lu, Ji-Ping, Fang, Chang-Hua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 19.03.2019
• Subjects: Bamboo; bamboos; Benzene; carbon; Carbon content; Cellulose; cement; Chemical composition; Chromaticity; Color; Cooling; Cooling towers; durability; elemental composition; Ethanol; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; Fourier transforms; Functional groups; glass; Glass fiber reinforced plastics; Heat; Hemicellulose; hydrolysis; Infrared radiation; Lignin; Mechanical properties; oxygen; Oxygen content; Packing; plastics; poly(vinyl chloride); Polyvinyl chloride; Service life; Skin; Spectrum analysis; Variance analysis; Water flow; United States > US; China

Bamboo grid packing (BGP) is a new kind of cooling packing, used in some Chinese hyperbolic cooling towers, which has excellent potential to complement or replace cooling packing made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), cement, and glass fiber-reinforced plastic. For bamboo applications, mechanical propert...