Manufacture and lightning performance of transparent wood
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https://doi.org/10.20868/ade.2025.5504Keywords:
wood, transparent, manufacture, illuminanceAbstract
Transparent wood is beginning to be used as a substitute for glass in a multitude of applications, such as in mobile phone screens, solar panels or building windows. In addition to requiring less energy to obtain, transparent wood has a much lower thermal conductivity than glass. The aim of this work was to explore the manufacturing process of transparent wood, as well as to analyse the levels of transparency achieved by measuring the passage of sunlight through it (illuminance). For the trials, three species of wood with different densities were used: low, medium and high. Analytical equations were obtained that allow us to know the illuminance throughout the day. Additionally, the influence of the direction of the fiber in relation to the solar path was studied, discovering that the illuminance increases when both are parallel.
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