Experimental study of the high-temperature thermomechanical drying of wood

Gorbachev, N. M.; Kozhin, V. P.

doi:10.1007/s10891-009-0169-x

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“…Water in wood can also be removed by applying mechanical rather than thermal processes. These mechanical dewatering approaches include compression rolling [14], centrifugation [15,16], and pressure expulsion [17,18].…”

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Effect of Samples Size on the Water Removal and Shrinkage of Eucalyptus urophylla × E. grandis Wood during Supercritical CO2 Dewatering

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Zhang³

et al. 2022

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Eucalyptus urophydis E. grandis green wood with different lengths were dewatered using CO2 that was cyclically alternated between the supercritical fluid and gas phases. The results indicate that shorter specimens can be dewatered to below the fiber saturation point (FSP). There was no significant difference in the dewatering rate between the specimens of 20 and 50 mm in length. The dewatering was faster when the moisture content (MC) was over the FSP, leading to a greater gradient and a non-uniform distribution of moisture. The MC distributions in all specimens had no clear differences between in tangential and radial directions. Supercritical CO2 dewatering generated a different moisture gradient than conventional kiln drying. Most water was dewatered from the end-grain section of the wood along the fiber direction, but a small amount of water was also removed in the transverse directions. There was no deformation in the specimens when the MC was above the FSP.

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