Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – Houses – kilns – and containers
Patent
1998-09-21
2000-09-19
Gravini, Stephen
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
Houses, kilns, and containers
34216, 34232, F26B 1900
Patent
active
06119364&
ABSTRACT:
A process for drying or curing green wood including the heating of green wood in a heating enclosure to a predetermined temperature over about 120 F while maintaining the moisture content of the wood close to the original moisture content of the felled wood, and then immediately cooling the heated wood with a cooling fluid at a temperature and humidity substantially less than the temperature and relative humidity of the heating enclosure for a time period sufficient for the wood to reach substantially the reduced temperature of the cooling fluid for normally removing at least about 5% of moisture from the green wood. The green wood is conditioned by the cooling step for subsequent drying steps in which moisture removal rates are substantially higher than moisture removal rates under prior conventional drying steps. The green wood process as set forth is effective to minimize staining of the wood.
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