DETERMINATION OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MASS TRANSFER 
IN CERTAIN COMBUSTIBLE FOREST MATERIALS
A. M. Grishin and A. N. Golovanov

UDC 533.6.011

The main characteristics of moisture transfer (the 
coefficients of moisture capacity and moisture conductivity) for the 
most widespread elements of combustible forest materials (CFMs), namely, 
needles of pine, cedar, and spruce, are found experimentally according 
to the procedure of A. V. Luikov, which is based on the introduction 
of a scale of moisture-transfer potential. The data obtained are compared 
with the results of other authors. Analysis of the structure of the 
CFM elements made it possible to establish that complex processes 
(desorption, adsorption, and osmosis) associated with a change in 
the fine structure of the needles during their drying occur inside 
the CFM elements.

Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia; email: fire@fire.tsu.tomsk.su. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 
53-57, July-August, 2001. Original article submitted August 10, 2000.

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