Open AccessTurning to Service, Preliminary Study of a Wood Conventional Semi Industrial Dryer and Cost Price of the Wood Drying in the African Tropical Context
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of thermal and environmental engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1923-7316
DOI - 10.5383/ijtee.09.02.005
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , environmental science , combustion , desorption , service (business) , wood industry , pulp and paper industry , waste management , process engineering , engineering , forestry , business , adsorption , geography , chemistry , archaeology , organic chemistry , marketing
As all apparatus used permanently or not, dryers of wood require a regular maintenance in other that the entry orders are effectively operated in the dryer and these components: interior air, interior wall and wood during the drying. This maintenance also permits to obtain the real values of the measured orders to following very well the drying operation. In this paper, we present the equipment and the calibration of wood semi industrial dryer of the National Higher College of Wood Technologies and Industries (ENSTIB) of the University of Lorraine situated at Epinal-France. These actions are much importance to use this dryer for the serious scientific studies. Then, the results that we have obtained in this dryer are analyzed and validated. Ayous wood (Triplochiton Scleroxylon) is used, because desorption isotherms are well-know and desorption energy is deducted very easily. We have also estimated the appropriated wood waste to bring the energy needed by combustion. An estimation of the cost price of the drying of wood is doing in order to motivate the workers of the domain.