HEATING OF PRODUCTION WOOD CHIPS IN A SATURATED-STEAM MEDIUM
V. A. Lashkov, E. I. Levashko, and R. G. Safin UDC 674.049;674.048 A mathematical model of heat and mass transfer in wood chips subjected to hydrothermal treatment in a saturated-steam medium for constant parameters of the external medium is developed. Filling of capillaries with a liquid moving with a finite velocity is responsible for the presence of different zones in which condensate transfer is determined by the corresponding mechanisms. Kazan State Technological University, Kazan, Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 80-83, January-February, 2001. Original article submitted March 2, 2000; revision submitted June 16, 2000. JEPTER7492020018 JEPTER749208