The purpose of this study was to use furfurylation to enhance the resistance of wood to subterranean termite attack. Wood samples were obtained from four fast-growing tropical wood species, namely sengon (Falcataria moluccana), jabon (Anthocephalus cadamba), mangium (Acacia mangium), and pine (Pinus merkusii), felled at a short cutting rotation. Specimens were impregnated with furfuryl alcohol (FA) solution and tartaric acid as a catalyst and then heated at 100 °C for 24 h. After conditioning, the specimens were exposed to subterranean termite attack in the laboratory according to the Indonesian standard. Furfurylated samples were found to have a higher density presumably because poly-FA filled the void space. It also had a lower moisture content because of the presence of poly-FA bulking in the wood cell wall, making it more hydrophobic. Furfurylation greatly enhanced subterranean termite attack resistance of wood, as shown by remarkably higher termite mortality, higher wood resistance class, lower wood weight percent loss, and reduced termite feeding rate. Based on the Indonesian standard, in which class I indicates very resistant wood and class V indicates very poorly resistant wood, untreated wood was class IV, but all furfurylated wood specimens were rated as class I.

这项研究的目的是使用糠基化来增强木材对地下白蚁侵袭的抵抗力。木材样品是从四种快速生长的热带木材物种中获得的，它们分别是sengon（Falcataria moluccana），jabon（Anthocephalus cadamba），Mangium（Acacia mangium）和松木（Pinus merkusii）。），在短时间内旋转倒下。将样品用糠醇（FA）溶液和酒石酸作为催化剂浸渍，然后在100°C加热24小时。调理后，按照印度尼西亚的标准，将标本在实验室中暴露于地下白蚁的攻击下。发现糠醛化的样品具有较高的密度，大概是因为聚-FA填充了空隙空间。由于木质细胞壁中存在聚-FA填充物，因此它的水分含量也较低，使其更具疏水性。糠醛化大大增强了木材对地下白蚁的抵抗力，这可以从白蚁死亡率，较高的木材抗性等级，较低的木材失重百分比和降低的白蚁摄食率中看出。根据印尼标准，