摘要:
A vacuum drying system wherein the drying chamber is provided with at least two vacuum draw headers positioned one above and one below a median plane through a load being dried to draw gases substantially symmetrically from opposite sides of the load as it is being dried. Preferably the drying system is a dielectric drying system and headers are positioned on opposite sides of the load.
摘要:
A method of determining the moisture content of charge of wood having a moisture content below fiber saturation and being subjected to a Radio Frequency dielectric heating process to the degree required to control the process (e.g., terminate drying) by measuring the wood product package dimensions and monitoring the RF power KW and RF voltage KV being applied to the charge at the electrode(s) and further controlling (i.e., terminating) the process when the KW and KV being applied based on a pre-selected function indicates that the charge has reached a preselected moisture content.
摘要:
A dielectric drying kiln material handling system includes a bottom electrode incorporating a conveyor system for moving material along said bottom electrode for moving material on and off of the electrode. Conveyors are built into the electrode in a manner so that the electrode surface of the bottom electrode, i.e. the surface contacting material to be dried is configured with gaps having dimensions so that the gaps do not significantly affect the uniformity of the power distribution over the electrode surface. Various types of conveyors may be used such as slat conveyors, roller conveyors, belt conveyors and the like provided the gaps, i.e. between the slats receiving the rollers or for accommodating the return rollers belt type conveyor are configured with dimensions so that the gaps do not significantly affect the uniformity of electromagnetic field and power distribution over the effective surface of the bottom electrode. The preferred arrangement permits computer control and includes an infeed conveyor, a electrode conveyor and an outfeed conveyor arranged in series so that material to be dried is positioned on the infeed conveyor and fed into the kiln with the feed forward of the infeed conveyor correlated with that of the electrode conveyor to deliver the material to be dried into position onto the electrode conveyor and then after drying, electrode conveyor is correlated with the outfeed conveyor to move the material from the electrode conveyor onto the outfeed conveyor. Preferably, the infeed conveyor delivers material into the kiln at the same time as the outfeed conveyor is receiving material being expelled from the kiln.