Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Process – With nondrying treating of material
Patent
1997-07-01
1998-11-17
Bennett, Henry
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Process
With nondrying treating of material
34417, 34493, 34497, F26B 700
Patent
active
058360867
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.degree. 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.
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