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Wood drying kilns

Wood drying kilns provides a means of overcoming the limitations imposed by erratic weather conditions. In kiln drying as in air drying, unsaturated air is used as the drying medium. Almost all commercial timbers of the world are dried in [...]

The main elements of kiln drying

The main elements of kiln drying wood drying equipments are described below: a) Construction materials: The wood drying kiln chambers are generally built of brick masonry, or hollow cement-concrete slabs. Sheet metal or prefabricated aluminium in a double-walled construction with sandwiched thermal insulation, [...]

New System For Controling Wood Drying Kiln

The present invention relates, in general, to kilns for drying and, in particular, to a new and useful control system for temperature and humidity within a wood drying kiln hardwoods. It is known that by controlling the temperature and humidity within the [...]

Wood drying kiln for periodic moisture measurements

In hardwood kilns, the conventional wisdom requires that multiple samples which are removed from the wood drying kiln for periodic moisture measurements, be repositioned within the lumber charge in a horizontal orientation, that is parallel to the air stream through [...]

A monitoring system for a wood drying kiln

A monitoring system for a wood drying kiln having a housing with an interior wall surface, an area within the housing for placement of a charge of wood for drying of the charge of wood, and means for heating and humidifying [...]

The process of wood drying

The process of wood drying kiln consists basically of introducing heat. This may be directly, using natural gas and/or electricity or indirectly, through steam-heated heat exchangers, although solar energy is also possible. In the process, deliberate control of temperature, relative humidity [...]