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Creator:: Swett, Thomas Michael.
Abstract:: As lumber producers are faced with a diminished and increasingly expensive raw material, the need to maximize resource recovery will increase. Trim-ends (particularly from waned boards) often contain some of the highest quality wood in any given log and lack functionality only in length. This waste, traditionally chipped for pulp,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Maki, Robert G.
Abstract:: Statistical Process Control techniques have been successfully implemented in the mechanical fabrication and chemical manufacturing industries. The techniques consist of the application of statistical theory in conjunction with quality control procedures. To date the Forest Products industry has yet to apply these techniques toward lumber drying. This thesis focuses on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Wu, Jing
Abstract:: Volatile organic emissions (VOCs) from the kiln drying of lumber are of concern to government, research agencies, and the forest products industry. In the Pacific Northwest, neither the quantity of VOC emissions from kilns drying Douglas-fir is available, nor the effects of drying schedule and lumber-related characteristics on the emissions....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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