Kiln-Drying of Lumber

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. The Structure of Wood

   • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

   Pages 1-21

3. Wood-Water Relationships

   • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

   Pages 23-42

4. Evaporation and Humidification

   • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

   Pages 43-64

5. Wood-Drying Kinetics

   • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

   Pages 65-84

6. Moisture Diffusion

   • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

   Pages 85-115

7. Multiple-Mechanism Models

   • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

   Pages 117-138

8. Lumber Quality

   • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

   Pages 139-169

9. Stress and Strain Behaviour

   • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

   Pages 171-202

10. Airflow and Convection

    • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

    Pages 203-219

11. Kiln Operation

    • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

    Pages 221-246

12. Pretreatments of Green Lumber

    • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

    Pages 247-270

13. Less-Common Drying Methods

    • Roger B. Keey, Timothy A. G. Langrish, John C. F. Walker

    Pages 271-289

14. Back Matter

    Pages 291-326

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At present, no single book adequately covers a basic understanding of wood book satisfies the need for such a work. It describes drying in practice. This the fundamental basis of kiln-drying technology, to enable forest companies to imFrove their drying operations as high-quality timbers become scarcer and of yesteryear can no longer be tolerated. Adaptive the wasteful practices is no longer good enough. Innovations change based on past experience of the material being dried and the processes require a sound understanding of drying. Newer techniques, such as the use of ultrahigh temperature sea­ soning and superheated steam under vacuum, require an even greater depth of physical understanding for these methods to be used effectively and economically. book provides a description of modern ideas about wood structure, This moisture movement and stress development, from which models of the drying process are developed to give the kiln operator important information about the course of drying under specified conditions, and thus a means is compared with practice wherever for rational process improvement. Theory possible.

• Bauholz
• Bretter
• Holz
• Nutzholz
• Trocknen
• chemical engineering
• forest
• forest engineering
• lumber
• temperature
• wood process engineering
• wood science

• Wood Technology Research Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Roger B. Keey

• Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  Timothy A. G. Langrish

• School of Forestry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  John C. F. Walker

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