Modeling conventional drying of wood: Inclusion of a moving evaporation interface

作者：Zhao, Jingyao; Fu, Zongying; Jia, Xiaoran; Cai, Yingchun^*

来源：Drying Technology, 2016, 34(5): 530-538.

DOI：10.1080/07373937.2015.1060999

• Drying
• evaporation interface
• mathematical modeling
• wood

A one-dimensional mathematical model is presented that accounts for a moving evaporation interface in simulating the coupled heat and mass transfer during convective drying of wood. In the model proposed, the only mechanism considered in water transport within wood is diffusion. Additionally, the transport of moisture is dominated by the gradient of the moisture content. The controlling equations were established from Whitaker's volume averaging laws and solved numerically with the finite volume method. The simulation results for the density of vapor and the volume rate of evaporation indicate that the migrating moisture was mainly in the form of gas under conditions of lower moisture content. The evaporation interface moved at approximately constant speed and the evaporation rate of the interface decreased with time. Finally, the core temperature and average moisture content in wood were successfully simulated.

• 出版日期2016
• 单位东北林业大学