The Sequestration of Carbon dioxide from the Wooden Furniture Industry in Taiwan

• Main Authors: 彭文俊 Peng, Wen-Chun, 彭文俊
• Other Authors: 張國慶 Chang, Kuo-Ching
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35029048814073149857

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 環境工程與科學系所 === 102 === Due to the Global Warming Effect (GWE), every country in the world began to envisage, investigate, and control its domestic carbon dioxide emission. Although fossil fuels could not be abandoned in short time, raising the efficiency and coupled with the technologies of capturing, storing, and reusing carbon dioxide, might effectively slow down the deterioration of the greenhouse effect. Wooden furniture industry has the largest proportion of wood-based industries and is an indispensable industry for our daily lives. Therefore, the main purpose of this research was to collect the data of the wooden industry and calculated the difference between the carbon dioxide emission and storage volumes before and after the wooden furniture making process. Based on the carbon dioxide storage technology, the feasibility of carbon dioxide storage by modern wooden industry was explored, and could provide the industry with another choice of carbon dioxide storage. People’s misconception that cutting trees for making wooden furniture was one of the prime culprits of the significant reduction in forest and the increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide should be corrected. According to the statistics, the carbon dioxide emission of Taiwan’s wooden furniture industry had been lower than the carbon dioxide storage of its required wood material since 2000. Also, the extensive use of recycled wooden furniture had further helped achieving the energy saving objective. The data of 2009 indicated that Taiwan’s annual output of wooden furniture was about 982,000 metric tons, and the materials used were 1,227,500 metric tons of original timber. The carbon dioxide emitted in the wooden furniture making process was 883,100 metric tons, but 2,069,200 metric tons of carbon dioxide were stored in the wood material. After deducting the carbon dioxide emitted in the wooden furniture making process, we could see that the atmospheric carbon dioxide was reduced by about 1,186,100 metric tons. Additionally, recycling of one kilogram of waste furniture redused 0.93 kilograms of carbon dioxide emission. This proved that wooden furniture mills had positive effect on the reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Also, we confirmed that the theory of wooden furniture making industry storing carbon dioxide was feasible that were essentially made from carbon. Carbon dioxide storage technologies are mostly in the research stage and face many difficulties, therefore still have a long way to go. Wooden furniture making was a mature technology which had less technical difficulties and could implement the mass production. It did have other pollutions to the environment, needed to be resolved, though it still was practically feasible. Data showed that the intensity of the carbon dioxide emission caused by producing a metric tons of wooden furniture could be kept under 2 metric tons of CO2 per metric ton of original timber, so that it did have carbon storage effect. Keywords：CO2、sequestration、wooden furniture industry、Used furniture recycling