Study the Drying Behavior of Green Wood Turning on Ecalyptus spp

Author: Ezhumalai R. and Shikhar Shukla

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Abstract

Wood seasoning is a well established technology to dry timber in a controlled atmosphere. The biggest challenge that it faces is the drying time, which paves ways to explore more towards reducing seasoning time. Some of the faster drying processes include radio frequency (RF) drying and vacuum drying but economically they are bit expensive. So innovative method of seasoning that involves least energy, less skill on the part of the laborers involved, quicker drying, comprehensibility, and easy workability is the need of the hour. Considering all above factors, this research work is on the method of converting the green wood into the turned products directly and then drying them. The output of adopting this methodology was that the turned samples of Eucalyptus wood were dried to 12-14% moisture content within 14 days in electric heated kiln which otherwise took more than 18 days to achieve this moisture content in unturned condition. More over working with green wood is easier and faster

Keywords

Green wood Turning, Drying Rate, pre-surfaced wood, Ecalyptus spp.

Conclusion

As it is already mentioned in the introduction, the wood industries throughout the country are finding it increasingly difficult to meet the needs of the people for various wood products. The absence of proper technology of wood seasoning to produce seasoned wood within the time period is another disadvantage to the wood Industry. On the other hand, we have faster drying process by use of RF and vacuum drying but it is costly. So, the new method of seasoning that involves least energy, less skill on the part of the laborers involved, quicker drying, comprehensibility, and workability is the need of the hour. Considering these, we have focused our research work on the method of converting the green wood into the turned products directly and then drying them. The result shows that the drying rate is 1.7 times more in case of green turned sample than the green unturned samples. There is no difference in drying rate upto 48% MC (Fig. 2) beyond that there is remarkable change in drying ra

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Ezhumalai R. and Shikhar Shukla (2022). Study the Drying Behavior of green wood turning on Ecalyptus spp. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 14(1): 1416-1423.