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- Title
Mode for hot air drying of alder blanks that retain the colour acquired during the steaming process.
- Authors
DZURENDA, LADISLAV
- Abstract
Mode for hot air drying of alder blanks that retain the colour acquired during the steaming process. The paper presents a hot-air mode for drying steamed alder in the form of blanks with dimensions: 38x100x800 mm from the initial moisture content W1 ≈ 50 % to the final moisture content W2 = 10%, while maintaining the colour of wood obtained in the process of steaming with saturated water steam. The drying process is divided into two parts: (I) evaporation of free water from wet wood at drying medium temperatures td = 35 - 40 °C and relative air humidity φ = 70 -- 60%, when there are no chemical changes in the lignin-saccharide complex of alder wood manifested by a change in colour; (II) evaporation of bound water from alder wood below the hygroscopicity limit is performed at temperatures td = 60 - 80 °C. The color coordinates of steamed alder wood after drying by a given mode in the CIE L* a* b* colour space are: L* = 62.5 ± 1.7; a* = 13.1 ± 0.8; b* = 18.5 ± 0.9. Total colour difference ΔE = 1.6. According to the categorization of wood color changes in thermal processes of wood, this change belongs to small (insignificant) color changes.
- Subjects
HUMECTANTS; VAPORIZATION in water purification; ENGINEERED wood; ALDER woodwasp; LUMBER drying
- Publication
Annals of Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Forestry & Wood Technology, 2021, Issue 114, p86
- ISSN
1898-5912
- Publication type
Article