EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE HIGH-TEMPERATURE THERMOMECHANICAL DRYING OF WOOD
N. M. Gorbachev and V. P. Kozhin UDC 674.047 The results of an experimental study of the thermomechanical drying of cylinder-shaped wood by the depressurization method are presented. The high rate of the process of thermomechanical drying with a good quality of dried articles has been confirmed. Keywords: drying, wood, depressurization, thermomechanical. A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; email: kozhin@hmti.ac.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 69-74, January-February, 2009. Original article submitted November 12, 2007.