Predicting moisture content in a pine logwood pile for energy purposes

Silva Fennica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 555-567

  Erber, Gernot ^a   Kanzian, Christian ^a   Stampfer, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Log pile; Modelling; Moisture content; Natural wind drying of fuel wood

Indexed keywords

DRYING; LINEAR REGRESSION; MODELS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RAIN;

ACCURATE MODELING; DRYING PERFORMANCE; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; FUEL WOOD; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS;

PILES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONIFEROUS TREE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUEL; MOISTURE CONTENT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SENSOR; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 84871627031     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.910     Document Type: Article

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