WP2 dataset (Foss)

<p>The dataset contains the spectral data acquired on waste wood samples using a&nbsp;Foss DS2500 spectrophotometer (Foss A/S, Hiller&oslash;d, Denmark). Waste wood samples were collected in different locations in Italy and Denmark during September and October 2020. The sampling involved recycling centres in Danish and in Italian municipalities, a panel board company and a company producing blocks for pallets.&nbsp;The sampling&nbsp;was carried out from static lots, focusing on collecting large pieces of woody material for ensuring the assignment into the&nbsp;proper&nbsp;waste wood category.&nbsp;</p> <p>In fact, in order to choose the proper reuse of the material according to its characteristics, the collected waste wood was sorted into three main waste wood categories according to the&nbsp;possible reuse of the material: i) virgin wood (VW), i.e. clean wood, that can be used both for panel board&nbsp;production and energy applications; ii) treated wood (TW), consisting in wood mixed with glue/resins (panel board, plywood, oriented-strand board, etc.) that can be reused for panel board production or energy&nbsp;applications in big combustion plants provided with gas cleaning filters; and iii) disposal wood (DW),&nbsp;consisting of impregnated and painted wood that needs to be sent to the disposal and cannot be reused. The collected samples are also divided in&nbsp;12 sub-categories, containing a more detailed description of the material quality.&nbsp;</p> <p>The file &lsquo;WP2_Foss_040723_v01.csv&rsquo;&nbsp;contains the spectral dataset while &lsquo;Legend_WP2_Foss_040723_v01.csv&rsquo; contains a legend with the acronyms used. In detail&nbsp;&lsquo;WP2_Foss_040723_v01.csv&rsquo; contains the following information in the columns:</p> <ul> <li>sample code: it is reporting the sample&nbsp;code where the first three letters indicate the sampling location, the successive two letters are the waste wood subcategory and the last number the NIR replicate (please have a look at Legend_WP2_Foss_040723_v01.csv for complete information);</li> <li>category: virgin wood corresponding to 0, treated wood corresponding to 1 and disposal wood corresponding to 2;&nbsp;</li> <li>subcategory: it is a more detailed description of the waste wood category (please have a look at Legend_WP2_Foss_040723_v01.csv file);</li> <li>spectral data: absorbance values for each sample from 400 nm to 2499.5&nbsp;nm.</li> </ul> <p>The aim behind this dataset is to&nbsp;characterize the waste wood material based on its quality and consequently determine its most suited applications&nbsp;(WP2&nbsp;of WoodSpec project). In fact, the classification of waste wood samples is a key-point for improving the sorting of the material and its&nbsp;reuse, avoiding&nbsp;expensive landfill. Having knowledge of the waste wood properties and characteristics could&nbsp;help in deciding the best recycling option.</p> <p>If you would like know more about the data, or to use these data, please refer to our article in Analytica Chimica Acta, doi:&nbsp;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2023.341564</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Funding: The project leading to this application has received funding from theEuropean Union&rsquo;s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 838560.</em></p> <p><em>Terms of use:&nbsp;These data are provided &quot;as is&quot;, without any warranties of any kind. The data are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.</em></p>