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DRYING WOOD: A REVIEW - PART II
Drying Technology, 1983ABSTRACT This paper reviews the technology of wood drying and recent developments in the field. The importance of drying is reviewed first. Then the fundamentals of wood properties as they relate to drying are discussed, including how water is held in wood, how it moves through wood, and how drying stresses that lead to drying defects develop ...
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Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 2011
Drying wood requires a significant amount of thermal energy, in order to heat-up wood and evaporate the water inside it. Therefore, solutions to minimize this consumption are a topic of maximum interest for wood-processing industries. Employing solar power for drying wood is not a novelty, considering that this possibility was already acknowledged at ...
Mihaela Campean, Ion Marinescu
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Drying wood requires a significant amount of thermal energy, in order to heat-up wood and evaporate the water inside it. Therefore, solutions to minimize this consumption are a topic of maximum interest for wood-processing industries. Employing solar power for drying wood is not a novelty, considering that this possibility was already acknowledged at ...
Mihaela Campean, Ion Marinescu
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Drying Schedules for Canelo Wood
Drying Technology, 2013Canelo wood is a highly valued native species in Chile that shows delicate marbling patterns with a pinkish soft silver luster. Due to its decorative qualities, canelo wood is dried for the manufacture of furniture and musical instruments. However, canelo wood lacks vessels cells that typically transport the water in hardwoods. Per its drying behavior,
Rubén A. Ananias +3 more
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Parameters Identification for Wood Drying
2004The importance of the process of drying solids in industry is widely recognized for some time now. The energy consumption in drying and its proportion in total energy balance has been often emphasized by various reports. The proper management of our energy resources requires an improvement of the existing drying techniques and innovation of new ...
Raimondas Čiegis +2 more
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Monitoring wood-drying processes
Measurement Techniques, 1972V. I. Panevnik +2 more
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