DISCONTINUOUS VACUUM DRYING OF OAK WOOD: MODELLING AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS |
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Authors: | W. JOMAA O. BAIXERAS |
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Affiliation: | Laboratoire “Energétique et Phénomènes de Transfert” -ENSAM Esplanade des Arts et Métiers , Talence, 33405, France |
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Abstract: | Abstract Vacuum drying and especially discontinuous vacuum drying is a very attractive process for such a wood as oak, because of a reduced drying time and a high quality of the final product. In this paper, a model describing heat, mass and momentum transfer in a capillary porous and hygroscopic medium under vacuum drying with no external heating agent (the material is pre-heated during a convective phase), is presented. The choice of the following three independent unknowns, moisture content, enthalpy and dry air density, leads to a fully well described problem where the effect of gaseous pressure inside the material is taken into account. A new formulation of the boundary conditions and its numerical resolution are validated by experimental results. |
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Keywords: | discontinuous vacuum drying oak modelling boundary conditions |
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