Energy Consumption in the Convective Drying of Timber Analyzed by a Multiscale Computational Model

Drying Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 1136-1146

  Perré, Patrick ^a   Rémond, Romain ^b   Colin, Julien ^c   Mougel, Eric ^b   Almeida, Giana ^d  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c MAAF   (France)

^d Université Paris Saclay   (France)

Author keywords

Board; Drying strategy; Energy saving; Sorting; Stack; Variability

Indexed keywords

BOARD; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CONVECTIVE DRYING; DRYING QUALITY; DRYING TIME; FINAL MOISTURE CONTENT; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; KILN DRYING; MULTISCALE COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; STACK; STANDARD DEVIATION; TIMBER DRYING; VARIABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; KILNS; SORTING; TIMBER;

DRYING;

EID: 84865249722     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2012.705205     Document Type: Article

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