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.