WO2003035342A1 - Method for the prevention of barnacle attacks - Google Patents
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- WO2003035342A1 WO2003035342A1 PCT/DK2002/000613 DK0200613W WO03035342A1 WO 2003035342 A1 WO2003035342 A1 WO 2003035342A1 DK 0200613 W DK0200613 W DK 0200613W WO 03035342 A1 WO03035342 A1 WO 03035342A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
- B27K—PROCESSES, APPARATUS OR SELECTION OF SUBSTANCES FOR IMPREGNATING, STAINING, DYEING, BLEACHING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS, OR TREATING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS WITH PERMEANT LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF CORK, CANE, REED, STRAW OR SIMILAR MATERIALS
- B27K3/00—Impregnating wood, e.g. impregnation pretreatment, for example puncturing; Wood impregnation aids not directly involved in the impregnation process
- B27K3/02—Processes; Apparatus
- B27K3/08—Impregnating by pressure, e.g. vacuum impregnation
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B27—WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL
- B27K—PROCESSES, APPARATUS OR SELECTION OF SUBSTANCES FOR IMPREGNATING, STAINING, DYEING, BLEACHING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS, OR TREATING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS WITH PERMEANT LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF CORK, CANE, REED, STRAW OR SIMILAR MATERIALS
- B27K3/00—Impregnating wood, e.g. impregnation pretreatment, for example puncturing; Wood impregnation aids not directly involved in the impregnation process
- B27K3/02—Processes; Apparatus
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- the present invention concerns a method for impregnating wooden items against attacks from Teredo, particularly poles situated in marine environment.
- Teredo is the Latin term for the family of shipworms that mainly live in salty water and mainly live off cellulose, which e.g. is found in wood.
- Shipworm is a long, worm- shaped bivalve, the shell of which only covering some of the front end of the animal.
- Shipworms are active in the entire submerged length of the pole, i.e. from over the bottom to the surface zone. Attack by shipworms often only appears as small holes into which the larvae have disappeared. In the first year, shipworms are male, then changing to female. Reproduction occurs by male and female worms releasing semen and eggs to the water, after which fertilisation and hatching occurs freely in the water. When the larva is hatched, it seeks out a wooden item in the water, including poles and the like. The larva bores into the e.g. pole and lines the passage with a thin layer of lime.
- the shipworm larva In the larva stadium, the shipworm larva is feeding mainly on cellulose fibres from the pole in which it has been born while at the same time eating and growing so that the destructive effect on the pole becomes more and more comprehensive. Thus it is difficult to judge to which extent a given pole is attacked by Teredo.
- Another way of preventing Teredo attacks is to impregnate with chemical means. Since most chemical agents are environmentally hazardous, there is a desire to reduce the use of environmentally harmful agents as these are leached out into the sea water and thereby have negative effect on the marine environment around the pole.
- a third method is to use mechanical or chemical barriers.
- a kind of mechanical barrier is to coat the pole with a copper layer or a concrete layer. This is a costly and cumbersome method, which in many cases makes it advantageous from an economic point of view to let the pole stand untreated, and, when the pole is degraded by Teredo attacks, to substitute it with a fresh pole.
- a fourth method for preventing Teredo attacks is to coat the pole externally with a chemical barrier, e.g. in the form of a plastic film impregnated with a chemical material.
- This method has the same disadvantages as the chemical impregnation of the pole as often there are released very poisonous substances to the surrounding marine environment with associated harmful effects.
- a hole is formed in parallel with the fibre orientation of the wood; b) the hole is then filled with an impregnating agent containing a biodegradable chelating agent; c) after which the hole is closed.
- the im- pregnation agent has a good ability to penetrate and disperse out in the wood, and further that the Teredo larvae and worms cannot live when impregnating agent is present in the pores of the wood.
- the method is relatively simple to implement, and furthermore continuous maintenance is easily performed by replenishing impregnation liquid in the holes.
- the impregnating liquid is not environmentally hazardous, the new impregnating method therefore has no influence on the marine environment around the pole.
- the impregnation agent contains chelating agent ranging from 1% to 25%, more preferably 5% to 15%.
- the impreg- nating agent may be filled into the hole under pressure, preferably with a pressure between 10 and 200 bar.
- the applied pressure enhances distribution of the impregnation agent in the wood tissue and thereby the impregnation process.
- the impregnation liquid will disperse in the wood tissue also in the embodiments of the method where pressure is not applied. This is due to the composition of the impregnation agent which has a relatively low surface tension due to the chemical composition.
- the entire hole in the wooden item in parallel with the fibre orientation is from 1200 mm to 2000 mm deep, and that the hole diameter is from 25 mm to 50 mm, preferably from 30 to 45 mm, and more preferably 38 mm, in a first section closest to an end face at a depth from 0 to 750 mm, and that the hole diameter is from 10 mm to 25 mm, preferably 15 mm to 20 mm, and more preferably 19 mm, in the remaining section of the depth of the hole.
- impregnating agents consisting of wa- ter, alcohol and soda, citric acid and similar products have appeared effective against shipworms and usable by the method according to the invention.
- an impregnation agent containing from 1% to 25% biodegradable chelating agent.
- the chelating agent ensures that the impregnating agent is not so easily washed out of the wood but also that an anti-
- Teredo environment is created.
- a plurality of holes par- allel with the fibre direction in the end face of each wooden item.
- the distance which the impregnating liquid is to penetrate the wood becomes less, whereby a more optimal treatment of the wooden item is ensured so that the impregnation liquid becomes evenly distributed in the entire wooden item.
- the method is particularly applicable on wooden poles, including bridge or mooring posts placed in salty water. There are many of these posts in normal harbours, and particularly in marinas wooden poles are used in great numbers for the construction of landing-stages and mooring posts.
- each pole is to be filled with 10 to 50 litres impregnating liquid, preferably 20 to 40 litres, and more preferably 30 litres impregnating agent in each hole. Even though the immediate size of the hole does not allow filling of the total amount of impregnating liquid at once, the filling should be continued until the above indicated amount has been absorbed in the pole.
- the filling may possibly occur by the top of the hole being fitted with a reservoir, which contains an amount of impregnating agent, so that, as the impregnating agent is dispersed in the wood pole, the level in the reservoir drops. Thereby it is easy to check when the impregnating agent is to be replenished as well as checking on the filled amount may easily be updated.
- the poles to be treated are erected so that they form a sheet piling, and in some case there is no access to the wood posts above the water level.
- the invention it is possible to bore a filling hole in the wood pole under water level and then to connect a filling stub.
- the filling stub is connected with a hose or similar to a tank in which impregnating agent is kept under pressure, e.g. 12- 20 bar.
- impregnating agent is kept under pressure, e.g. 12- 20 bar.
- the invention has been describe with regard particularly to application on poles which are already placed in a marine environment.
- the impregnating agent and the effect attained thereby is, however, just as applicable in a compregnation process on new poles. This implies substantial economic savings, as it is more rational to treat several poles at a time than to treat each pole individually on site.
- Fig. 1 shows a pole with a bored hole.
- Fig. 2 shows a drilling device for use in the method.
- Fig. 3 shows a pole with pressure equipment.
- Fig. 4 shows a finished pole.
- Fig. 5 shows a pole with fitted reservoir.
- Fig. 1 a mooring post 1 placed in a marine environment so that the pole is thrust into the bed 2.
- the pole will typically protrude up over the water level 3, either to form part of a bridge structure or to be used as mooring post.
- the method according to the invention is not limited to the mooring posts or posts forming part of bridge structures, but may be used for all kinds of wooden items that are exposed to Teredo attack, i.e. wooden items placed in salty, marine environment.
- the invention thus indicates a method for protecting wooden items against attacks from Teredo.
- a hole 4 in parallel with the longitudinal orientation of the fibres.
- the hole is to be deep enough to reach down under the water level, i.e. typically 1 . to 2 m deep.
- the tool comprises a very long drill 5 corresponding to the depth of the hole, i.e. up to 2 m long.
- the drill 5 itself is hollow, and an aperture 6,7 is provided at both ends of the drill.
- the drill is brought to rotate by means of a drilling machine 9 connected at the upper end of the drill.
- compressed air is conducted in through the aperture 6, down through the drill 5 and out through aperture 7, in order thereby to remove and enhance transport of wood chips produced by the drilling process up through the hole and out of the pole.
- FIG. 3 is illustrated the succeeding stage of the method according to the invention, as there is inserted a pipe 10 in the upper part of the hole 4.
- a pipe 10 In the pipe 10, there is a connecting facility for a supply hose 11, which is led to a reservoir 12 that possibly may be pressurised.
- the impregnation agent In the reservoir 12, the impregnation agent is placed so that the impregnation agent is conducted through the supply hose into the pipe and thereby into the inner part of the pole.
- the impregnation agent will disperse into the wood 13 as illustrated with arrows 14.
- the hole 4 is outlined as filled with impregnating agent 15. When the desired amount of impregnating agent has been supplied to the pole, the connection to the reservoir 12 is disrupted, and supply hose and pipe are then removed from the pole.
- a plug 16 is attached as illustrated in Fig. 4.
- the hole 4 there may still stand an amount of impregnating agent 15 which will disperse into the wood 13 over time.
- the wood is illustrated in Fig. 4 as being impregnated with im- pregnating agent 15 by 17.
- supply hose and pressurised reservoir 11,12 have been substituted with a tank 18, which is connected with the hole 4, possibly via a pre-fitted pipe 10.
- a tank 18 which is connected with the hole 4, possibly via a pre-fitted pipe 10.
- impregnating agent 15 which will be actuated by gravitational force and then disperse in the pole, i.e. the wood as outlined with the arrows 14.
- the tank 18 is removed from the pipe 10, after which the pole is finished as illustrated in Fig. 4.
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AT02776902T ATE552952T1 (en) | 2001-10-25 | 2002-09-20 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING VEST ATTACKS |
CA2502878A CA2502878C (en) | 2001-10-25 | 2002-09-20 | Method for the prevention of barnacle attacks |
US10/493,430 US7214407B2 (en) | 2001-10-25 | 2002-09-20 | Method for the prevention of barnacle attacks |
EP02776902A EP1444074B8 (en) | 2001-10-25 | 2002-09-20 | Method for the prevention of barnacle attacks |
DK02776902.5T DK1444074T3 (en) | 2001-10-25 | 2002-09-20 | Procedure for preventing pole worm attacks |
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DK200200796A DK200200796A (en) | 2002-05-23 | 2002-05-23 | Impregnation of wooden items, particularly poles situated in marine environment against attack from teredo, by filling hole with impregnating agent containing biodegradable chelating agent |
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DE50295C (en) * | HERM. LlEBAU in Magdeburg-Sudenburg | Process for impregnating wooden posts | ||
GB770918A (en) * | 1954-11-03 | 1957-03-27 | Raoul Flasse | Process for the impregnation of wood |
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WO2011018675A1 (en) | 2009-08-11 | 2011-02-17 | NIYONIZIGIYE, Déogratias | Collar treatment of wood utility poles |
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