Pitch oil production – an intangible cultural heritage in Central Europe

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会议名称:“2022世界木材日”研讨会暨第四届国际林联(IUFRO)林产品文化研究组讨论会
会议时间:2022年3月22日

报告嘉宾:Johannes Tintner
嘉宾简介:奥地利维也纳自然资源和生命科学大学高级研究员


摘要:

Pitch oil production from Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) resinous wood is an intangible cultural heritage in the Central European region including the Czech Republic, Northern Austria and South Eastern Germany, and is related to traditions in Finland and Southern France. The heating of wood in small kilns also fueled by wood produces liquid for collection. Our detailed investigations of three pitch oil kilns in Upper Austria led to the discovery of relationships to the production of pine and birch tar in Fennoscandia and black pine tar production in Western Anatolia. Our measurements of temperatures at the bases of the kilns revealed a slow temperature rise. We predicted maximum temperatures based on infrared spectra, and measured overall temperatures in the range of 250 °C to 650 °C. With gas chromatographic analyses of pitch oil we detected a dominant proportion of resin components and only a minor proportion of compounds attributable to pyrolytic transformation of solid wood mass. In most pitch oil samples the extractives comprised 90 %. Most samples were similar and only the first samples at the starting outflow were systematically dominated by pyrolysis products. Tar runoff from a traditional circular charcoal kiln for charcoal production – used as a reference – had a strongly different composition, with a high proportion of pyrolysis compounds.

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